We are pleased to announce version 2.6.0-RC1 of the Scala distribution:
1) It introduces some language changes.
http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/changelog.html#v2.6.0 - Existential types (new keyword "forSome")
- Lazy values (new keyword "lazy")
- Structural types
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- etc.
2) It fixes many bugs both in the compiler and the libraries.
http://scala-lang.org/downloads/changes.html#v2.6.0-RC13) It adds new functionalities in the standard library.
- new package scala.util.parsing.combinator
- improvements in package scala.actors
- additions like in class Array (new methods,
multi-dimensional constructors)
Other release candidates may follow this version depending
on bugs reported by the Scala community (no changes/additions,
only bug fixes!); the final release (aka. 2.6.0-final) is
planned in 2-3 weeks.
Bye
-- Stephane
