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Here is a draft of 0.5.0-RC1 blog post.

  • @nicolasstucki Do you want to say something about dotc -decompile or dotc -from-tasty?
  • @Duhemm Do you want to say something about java signature? Maybe give examples of what it lets you do with reflection.

### TASTY frontend
The TASTY frontend is a frontend that reloads the ASTs from the TASTY within the classfiles in the classpath. We fixed most issues with the frontend which enable us to re-compile code from TASTY without the need of retypecheck (#3436, #3512, #3492).

Currenlty two backends that use this frontend are available
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The TASTY frontend is a frontend that reloads the ASTs from the TASTY within the classfiles in the classpath. We fixed most issues with the frontend which enable us to re-compile code from TASTY without the need of retypecheck (#3436, #3512, #3492).

Currenlty two backends that use this frontend are available
* Dotty class file decompiler `dotc -decompile -classpath CLASSPATH CLASSNAME`. It will decompile the code by preaty printing the contents of the TASTY. This code is the high level representation of the typechecked code without loss of precieceness due transformations towards JVM bytecode. It can also be used with `dotc -decompile -print-tasty ...` to show a preaty printed version of the raw TASTY (#3519).
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s/preaty/pretty/g

The TASTY frontend is a frontend that reloads the ASTs from the TASTY within the classfiles in the classpath. We fixed most issues with the frontend which enable us to re-compile code from TASTY without the need of retypecheck (#3436, #3512, #3492).

Currenlty two backends that use this frontend are available
* Dotty class file decompiler `dotc -decompile -classpath CLASSPATH CLASSNAME`. It will decompile the code by preaty printing the contents of the TASTY. This code is the high level representation of the typechecked code without loss of precieceness due transformations towards JVM bytecode. It can also be used with `dotc -decompile -print-tasty ...` to show a preaty printed version of the raw TASTY (#3519).
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preciseness

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Duhemm commented Nov 29, 2017

@allanrenucci I added a short paragraph about generic java signatures.

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@heathermiller Could you please have a look? I'll open a PR to scala-lang if we are happy with this version

implicit search for `Q` fails.

### Dependent function types [#3464](https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/3464)
A dependent function type describes functions where the result type may depend
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I would write "path dependent" everywhere to avoid the confusion with dependent types.

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@odersky What do you think?

ambiguous, and subsequently have classified the query `b(implictly[A])` as a normal fail,
which means that the alternative `c` would be chosen as solution!

Scala 2's somewhat puzzling behavior wrt ambiguity has been exploited to implement the analogue
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s/wrt/with respect to/

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@allanrenucci allanrenucci merged commit dc52e6f into scala:master Dec 1, 2017
@allanrenucci allanrenucci deleted the 0.5.0-RC1-blogpost branch December 1, 2017 13:58
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