Sunday, December 05, 2010

How Scala compiler stores meta information

I was always wondering how Scala compiler fits into Java class file with all it’s comprehensive language constructions. I felt there was some magic… Later in Scala 2.8 I faced a problem with calling method with default parameters using reflection. From a quick glance it seemed that there nothing complex. But wait, Scala allows methods overloading and how do you know which method has default parameters?