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Dexter
Dexter

Reputation: 1421

Is it instance name/id that scala REPL prints?

Tutorial mentions about mutable sets in the initial but why would the REPL change the instance name from res4 to res5 when a new element is added? Is 'res' not the instance name that REPL prints? Below is the code in context. Beginner in scala. Please bear if the question is trivial. 

scala> val set = scala.collection.mutable.Set[Int]()
val set: scala.collection.mutable.Set[Int] = Set()

scala> set += 1
val res0: scala.collection.mutable.Set[Int] = Set(1)

scala> set += 2 += 3
val res1: scala.collection.mutable.Set[Int] = Set(1, 2, 3)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 62

Answers (1)

Andronicus
Andronicus

Reputation: 26076

The reference did not change though, it means res0 == res1. Scala repl will generate names for expressions that are not assigned any name, no matter if it's mutable or not.

Additionally take a look at the docs. For mutable.Set, the method += results in Set.this.type. Since there is a value returned, it has to be assigned some name.

Upvotes: 4

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