After several weeks of work, we are happy to announce the second
release candidate for the next version of Scala: version 2.7.2.RC2.
Scala 2.7.2.RC2 fixes the parsing of Java inner classes, and
various bugs that were found in RC1. This release candidate also
includes a new version of the Scala plugin for Eclipse. Instructions
on how to use Scala in Eclipse and other IDEs are available on the
IDE Plugins page (
http://www.scala-lang.org/node/91#ide_plugins).
You can download Scala 2.7.2.RC2, as usual, from our Download Page:
http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads.
The following features are new to the 2.7.2 version of Scala:
What's new?
* Generic Signatures
The Scala compiler now generates Java's generic
signatures, so that Scala generics are visible to Java.
* Java/Scala Combined Projects
The compiler can now parse (but not translate) Java source
files. This makes it possible to have mixed Java/Scala
projects with recursive dependencies between them.
In such a project, you can submit first all the Java and Scala
sources to the Scala compiler. In a second step, the Java
sources are compiled using the Scala generated .class files
and the Scala sources are compiled again using the Java
generated .class files.
* ScalaSwing
Another major addition is the first beta version of the
ScalaSwing library, which is now bundled with the distribution.
* Scala Collections
There are new implementations of collection classes, contributed
by David MacIver: IntMap, LongMap, and TreeHashMap (immutable),
ArrayStack and OpenHashMap (mutable).
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The Scala Team
