Programming in Scala

Programming in Scala, Second Edition A comprehensive step-by-step Guide By Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners Publisher: artima Released: December 13, 2010 Pages: 883

Introduction xlii

1. A Scalable Language 50
2. First Steps in Scala 69
3. Next Steps in Scala 82
4. Classes and Objects 104
5. Basic Types and Operations 118
6. Functional Objects 140
7. Built-in Control Structures 160
8. Functions and Closures 185
9. Control Abstraction 208
10. Composition and Inheritance 223
11. Scala's Hierarchy 251
12. Traits 259
13. Packages and Imports 278
14. Assertions and Unit Testing 296
15. Case Classes and Pattern Matching 310
16. Working with Lists 345
17. Collections 378
18. Stateful Objects 400
19. Type Parameterization 423
20. Abstract Members 448
21. Implicit Conversions and Parameters 480
22. Implementing Lists 504
23. For Expressions Revisited 517
24. The Scala Collections API 534
25. The Architecture of Scala Collections 610
26. Extractors 634
27. Annotations 650
28. Working with XML 658
29. Modular Programming Using Objects 672
30. Object Equality 687
31. Combining Scala and Java 713
32. Actors and Concurrency 726
33. Combinator Parsing 762
34. GUI Programming 791
35. The SCells Spreadsheet 803

A. Scala scripts on Unix and Windows 828

Glossary 829

Bibliography 845

About the Authors 848

Index 849