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Lukas Rytz edited this page Jan 26, 2018 · 90 revisions

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Collection Users

What are the breaking changes?

  • collection.breakOut no longer exists
  • Method to[C] was removed
  • MapProxy, SetProxy no longer exist
  • SynchronizedX no longer exist
  • SeqForwarder no longer exists
  • Implicit conversions between Scala and Java collections no longer exist (convert.ImplicitConversions / ImplicitConversionsToJava / ImplicitConversionsToScala) -- NOTE: they are not deprecated in 2.12.
  • MutableList is no longer public
  • TreeMap / TreeSet / BitSet: the to method is now called rangeTo
  • immutable.Set/Map: the + method no longer has an overload accepting multiple values, so Set(1) + (2, 3) is now Set(1) + 2 + 3
  • mutable.Set/Map no longer has a + method, so mutable.Set(1) + 2 is now mutable.Set(1).clone() += 2
  • mutable.Set/Map no longer has an updated method, so mutable.Map(1 -> 2).updated(1, 3) is no mutable.Map(1 -> 2).clone() += 1 -> 3
  • Iterable no longer has a sameElements method, call .iterator() first

Are there new collection types?

Are there new operations on collections?

Are there new implementations of existing collection types (changes in performance characteristics)?

How do I cross-build my project against Scala 2.12 and Scala 2.13?

  • Compat library
  • Accept some deprecation warnings (?)
  • sbt's version-specific source folders if necessary, but should not be

Does scala.Seq change to mean scala.collection.immutable.Seq?

No, there are no plans to change the scala.Seq alias.

Historical discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/g_-gIWgB8Os

Collection Implementers

CanBuildFrom no longer exists - what were its uses and how can they be replaced?

How can I write generic extension methods?

How do I integrate my collection in the new design?

Read the draft document on the design of the Scala 2.13 collections: https://github.com/scalacenter/docs.scala-lang/blob/collection-strawman/_overviews/core/architecture-of-scala-collections.md

How can I cross-build my collection implementation against 2.12 and 2.13?

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