QOTW: "... open recursion with abstraction is supported in OOP but it
requires elaborate and rather tedious boilerplate in FP ..." - Martin Odersky
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--scala--usefulness-of-OOP-p23273389.html
How to write a method that may act both as an instance method a
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