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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ Hello scala, my old friend I've come to take you home again Because a feature slowly creeping left me plagued with doubts and weeping and the version that was tagged in the repo just has to go it lacks the signs of soundness On sleepness nights I hacked alone applying ant and other tools of stone A futile tour of every open bug once done in weeks, now I can only shrug when my brain was melted by a blast of complexity which needn't be I lost all signs of soundness And in the bug tracker I saw ten thousand tickets, maybe more Abstract types, improper variance Skolems escaping through a porous fence People writing type lambdas which no one understands and no one planned to check for signs of soundness "Friends," said I, "You do not know Unsoundness like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my code that I might reach you" But in unpublished branches it lay still does today awaiting signs of soundness To scalac they'd plead and pray it had to get faster some day Yet scala's future it has itself seen Warnings unheeded thanks to SIP-18 And the log says "The words of the prophets were written in old tickets and closed wontfix" We search for signs of soundness