Scala, first example.

Posted on February 8, 2007

Here is an example of code in Scala. Scala is a functional/OO hybrid language for JVM and .NET virtual machines.
I started playing with it today.

object RSSDump extends Application {
        val url = "http://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml"
        val elem = scala.xml.XML.load(url)
        val items = elem \\ "item"
        for(val item <- items) {
          val title = (item \ "title").text
          Console.println(title)
        }
}

Some things to note:
object RSSDump is a singleton object, it has a state.

val is a constant value, it can not change. we can do

var i: int
i = i + 1 // increment variable

if we have to.

Scala functions can have any names, such as \ \\ ! !?, so we and not limited to overloading +-=.

Scala has XML processing build in, elem \\ “item”. More about it in the next post.

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