- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Zero to Sixty: Introducing Scala
- 2. Type Less, Do More
- Semicolons
- Variable Declarations
- Ranges
- Partial Functions
- Method Declarations
- Inferring Type Information
- Reserved Words
- Literal Values
- Option, Some, and None: Avoiding nulls
- Sealed Class Hierarchies
- Organizing Code in Files and Namespaces
- Importing Types and Their Members
- Abstract Types Versus Parameterized Types
- Recap and What’s Next
- 3. Rounding Out the Basics
- Operator Overloading?
- Methods with Empty Argument Lists
- Precedence Rules
- Domain-Specific Languages
- Scala if Statements
- Scala for Comprehensions
- Other Looping Constructs
- Conditional Operators
- Using try, catch, and finally Clauses
- Call by Name, Call by Value
- lazy val
- Enumerations
- Interpolated Strings
- Traits: Interfaces and “Mixins” in Scala
- Recap and What’s Next
- 4. Pattern Matching
- A Simple Match
- Values, Variables, and Types in Matches
- Matching on Sequences
- Matching on Tuples
- Guards in case Clauses
- Matching on case Classes
- Matching on Variable Argument Lists
- Matching on Regular Expressions
- More on Binding Variables in case Clauses
- More on Type Matching
- Sealed Hierarchies and Exhaustive Matches
- Other Uses of Pattern Matching
- Concluding Remarks on Pattern Matching
- Recap and What’s Next
- 5. Implicits
- 6. Functional Programming in Scala
- What Is Functional Programming?
- Functional Programming in Scala
- Recursion
- Tail Calls and Tail-Call Optimization
- Partially Applied Functions Versus Partial Functions
- Currying and Other Transformations on Functions
- Functional Data Structures
- Traversing, Mapping, Filtering, Folding, and Reducing
- Left Versus Right Traversals
- Combinators: Software’s Best Component Abstractions
- What About Making Copies?
- Recap and What’s Next
- 7. for Comprehensions in Depth
- 8. Object-Oriented Programming in Scala
- 9. Traits
- 10. The Scala Object System, Part I
- 11. The Scala Object System, Part II
- 12. The Scala Collections Library
- 13. Visibility Rules
- 14. Scala’s Type System, Part I
- 15. Scala’s Type System, Part II
- 16. Advanced Functional Programming
- 17. Tools for Concurrency
- 18. Scala for Big Data
- 19. Dynamic Invocation in Scala
- 20. Domain-Specific Languages in Scala
- 21. Scala Tools and Libraries
- 22. Java Interoperability
- 23. Application Design
- 24. Metaprogramming: Macros and Reflection
- A. References
- Index
Dedication
To Everette Lawrence Wampler, August 28, 1931 - May 9, 2013.
Dean
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