Interesting. I didn't know that behavior changed. Since we try to cover v2.8, we need to amend that paragraph in the book!
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Eric Willigers
<ewilligers@...> wrote:
Welcome to Scala version 2.7.5.final
scala> val a = '1
<console>:1: error: missing terminating quote
val a = '1
^
Welcome to Scala version 2.8.0.r18236-b20090708020214
scala> val a = '1
a: Symbol = '1
Is the change in behaviour intended?
I'm enjoying Wampler and Payne's upcoming book, it is making me check things I thought I understood.
http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/ch02.html#SymbolLiterals
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