Published
November 26, 2014
264 pages

by Andrew Phillips and Nermin Šerifović

Getting code to do what we want it to do is perhaps the essence of our purpose as developers. So there are few things more intriguing or important than code that we think we understand, but that behaves rather contrary to our expectations.

Scala Puzzlers is a collection of such examples in Scala. It is not only an entertaining and instructive way of understanding this highly expressive language better. It will also help you recognize many counter-intuitive traps and pitfalls and prevent them from inflicting further production bug hunt stress on Scala developers.

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Table of contents

Contents vii
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction xv
1. Hi There! 17
2. UPSTAIRS downstairs 22
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3. Location, Location, Location 27
4. Now You Don't See Me, Now You Do 33
5. The Missing List 41
6. Arg Arrgh! 45
7. Caught Up in Closures 50
8. Map Comprehension 55
9. Init You, Init Me 59
10. A Case of Equality 68
11. If at First You Don't Succeed... 75
12. To Map, or Not to Map 79
13. Self: See Self 84
14. Return to Me! 88
15. Implicitly Surprising 94
16. One Bound, Two to Go 100
17. Count Me Now, Count Me Later 106
18. Information Overload 112
19. What's in a Name? 118
20. Irregular Expressions 123
21. I Can Has Padding? 128
22. Cast Away 134
23. Pick a Value, AnyValue! 142
24. Double Trouble 148
25. Type Extortion 153
26. Implicit Kryptonite 158
27. A Case of Strings 165
28. Adaptive Reasoning 171
29. A View to a Shill 177
30. Great Expectations 182
31. Accepts Any Args 187
32. Set the Record Straight 192
33. The Devil Is in the Defaults 199
34. The Main Thing 204
35. Quite the Outspoken Type 211
36. Size It Up 216
Bibliography 222
About the Authors 223
Subject Index 225
Index 228

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