Demystifying Scala Extractors

by Daniel Hinojosa

September 2012

At this year's NFJS Tour, I have a new presentation that I am excited to talk about — "Scala, Demystifying the Funky Stuff". The presentation distills many of the more complicated topics that can pose an issue for the new and interested Scala programmer. The presentation covers partial functions vs. partially applied functions, the Predef, type variables, implicit parameters, implicit converters, implicit wrappers, infix types, the Manifest, abstract types, type projections and type bounds. One topic that did not make it into the live presentation is Scala extractors, so for now, it will have to be housed as an article in this venerable magazine.


About Daniel Hinojosa

Independent Consultant/Developer

Providing solutions to private, education, and government entities since 1999. He has also been a teacher and speaker since the early 90s, teaching development for 8 years. His business is currently emphasized on Java, Groovy, Grails, EJB3, and the JBoss Seam web framework. Daniel Hinojosa is also co-founder of the Albuquerque Java User's Group and is currently failing overcoming his addiction of NFJS conferences.