Scala days 2011

The premier event for Scala enthusiasts, researchers, and practitioners Scala Days 2011 will be held at Stanford, California on the 2nd and 3rd of June 2011. Check out the official web site .

Jorge Ortiz on Panel: Scaling with Scala

Viktor Klang on Building loosely coupled and scalable systems using EDA

Paul Chiusano on Actors: can we do better?

Christopher League on Continuations and Other Functional Patterns

Josh Suereth on Implicits without import tax: How to make clean APIs with implicits

Nathan Hamblen on Building an HTTP streaming API with Scala

Jonas Bonér on Akka: Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting through Actors

Runar Bjarnason on The Guerrilla Guide to Pure Functional Programming

Nermin Serifovic on Scala Performance Considerations

Mark Harrah sbt 0.9: Why, what, how?

Daniel Spiewak on Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala

Scala basic data types

Value type	Range
Byte	8-bit signed two’s complement integer (-27 to 27 - 1, inclusive)
Short	16-bit signed two’s complement integer (-215 to 215 - 1, inclusive)
Int	32-bit signed two’s complement integer (-231 to 231 - 1, inclusive)
Long	64-bit signed two’s complement integer (-263 to 263 - 1, inclusive)
Char	16-bit unsigned Unicode character (0 to 216 - 1, inclusive)
String	a sequence of Chars
Float	32-bit IEEE 754 single-precision float
Double	64-bit IEEE 754 double-precision float
Boolean	true or false

Data types shown above reside in package scala except String! String is a member of java.lang package and it's automatically imported therefore it's implicitly converted to scala's WrappedString class (it used to convert to RichString before scala 2.8.1). We can call WrappedString's methods on a string. Voila!