FAQ

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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 (https://github.com/scala/collection-strawman/issues/375)
• 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
• colleciton.Seq.union no longer exists, use ++
• collection.Map no longer has - or -- methods
• LinearSeq no longer has a companion-apply, use List()
• HashSet.remove now returns an Option[A] instead of a Boolean
• Iterable.partition invokes iterator twice and assumes it gets two iterators over the same elements. Strict subclasses override partition do perform only a single traversal.
• List.union no longer exists, use :::

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?

We have plans to change the scala.Seq alias, https://github.com/scala/collection-strawman/issues/149.

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?

Examples

• https://github.com/scala/scala-parser-combinators/pull/134/files
• https://github.com/scala/scala-xml/compare/master...lrytz:newCollections?expand=1