After some final ironing and bug fixing, a new release candidate for the next version of Scala is available: version 2.7.2.RC4 . As usual, the updated Scala plugin for Eclipse is available via the Eclipse software update facility (more information here ). The new Scala 2.7.2.RC4 is available for download from our Download Page .
The following features are new to the 2.7.2 version of Scala:
What's new?
- Generic Signatures
The Scala compiler now generates Java's generic signatures, so that Scala generics are visible to Java.
- Java/Scala Combined Projects
The compiler can now parse (but not translate) Java source files. This makes it possible to have mixed Java/Scala projects with recursive dependencies between them. In such a project, you can submit first all the Java and Scala sources to the Scala compiler. In a second step, the Java sources are compiled using the Scala generated .class files and the Scala sources are compiled again using the Java generated .class files.
- ScalaSwing
Another major addition is the first beta version of the ScalaSwing library, which is now bundled with the distribution.
- Scala Collections
There are new implementations of collection classes, contributed by David MacIver: IntMap, LongMap, and TreeHashMap (immutable), ArrayStack and OpenHashMap (mutable).
