Scalap is gone?

Scalap seems to have been silently removed in release 2.7.2. This was
not mentioned in the changelog.

What is the rationale for this? Scalap is just as essential for Scala
development as javap is for java development. It's the only tool that
a layman has available for examining the contents of the ScalaSig
attribute in class files. Without it, class files become opaque and
Scala's inner workings more mystical than ever.

Incidentally, in the long run, I think it would be a very good idea to
move Scala-specific signature information into annotations, so the
type information remained available at run-time, too.


Lauri