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ciri
ciri

Reputation: 123

Scala subclass pattern match

I'm trying to run code from the book "Functional Programming in Scala" which seems to be made for an older version of scala (download from here). tmp.scala:

sealed trait Option[+A]
case class Some[+A](get: A) extends Option[A] 
case object None extends Option[Nothing]

trait Option[+A] {
    /* returns None if None, or function applied to the some object */
    def map[B](f: A => B): Option[B] = this match {
      case None => None
      case Some(a) => Some(f(a))
    }
}

The errors this throws are:

$ scala
Welcome to Scala 2.12.0-20161021-070700-8684ae8 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.8.0_112).
scala> :load tmp.scala

tmp.scala:17: error: pattern type is incompatible with expected type;
 found   : None.type
 required: Option[A]
             case None => None
                  ^
tmp.scala:17: error: type mismatch;
 found   : None.type
 required: Option[B]
             case None => None
                          ^
tmp.scala:18: error: constructor cannot be instantiated to expected type;
 found   : Some[A(in class Some)]
 required: Option[A(in trait Option)]
             case Some(a) => Some(f(a))
                  ^
tmp.scala:18: error: type mismatch;
 found   : Some[B]
 required: Option[B]
             case Some(a) => Some(f(a))
                                 ^

I tried all sorts of codefu on this, but to no avail, it seems like it's not detecting the subclasses properly due to outdated syntax?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 532

Answers (1)

som-snytt
som-snytt

Reputation: 39577

Use :paste file.scala, which pastes the content, instead of :load file.scala, which interprets each line.

Upvotes: 3

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