I love to make and use abstractions. I am probably most happy to use them when they are mine (ha ha), because then I'm steeped in them. Well, unless I leave the code alone for 6 months - then I might have no freaking idea what my past-self was doing. Grn.

I find some of Other People's Abstractions to be interesting and possibly even good.

But I do get the feeling, overall, that Scala has gone a tad off the deep end. Cf. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scala-user/qkIUJW_2mhw/q_8_GnzfBwAJ