Samples of Scala and Java code where Scala code looks simpler/has fewer lines?

Solution 1:

Let's improve stacker's example and use Scala's case classes:

case class Person(firstName: String, lastName: String)

The above Scala class contains all features of the below Java class, and some more - for example it supports pattern matching (which Java doesn't have). Scala 2.8 adds named and default arguments, which are used to generate a copy method for case classes, which gives the same ability as the with* methods of the following Java class.

public class Person implements Serializable {
    private final String firstName;
    private final String lastName;

    public Person(String firstName, String lastName) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }

    public String getFirstName() {
        return firstName;
    }

    public String getLastName() {
        return lastName;
    }

    public Person withFirstName(String firstName) {
        return new Person(firstName, lastName);
    }

    public Person withLastName(String lastName) {
        return new Person(firstName, lastName);
    }

    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) {
            return true;
        }
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) {
            return false;
        }
        Person person = (Person) o;
        if (firstName != null ? !firstName.equals(person.firstName) : person.firstName != null) {
            return false;
        }
        if (lastName != null ? !lastName.equals(person.lastName) : person.lastName != null) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

    public int hashCode() {
        int result = firstName != null ? firstName.hashCode() : 0;
        result = 31 * result + (lastName != null ? lastName.hashCode() : 0);
        return result;
    }

    public String toString() {
        return "Person(" + firstName + "," + lastName + ")";
    }
}

Then, in usage we have (of course):

Person mr = new Person("Bob", "Dobbelina");
Person miss = new Person("Roberta", "MacSweeney");
Person mrs = miss.withLastName(mr.getLastName());

Against

val mr = Person("Bob", "Dobbelina")
val miss = Person("Roberta", "MacSweeney")
val mrs = miss copy (lastName = mr.lastName)

Solution 2:

I found this one impressive

Java

public class Person {
    private final String firstName;
    private final String lastName;
    public Person(String firstName, String lastName) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }
    public String getFirstName() {
        return firstName;
    }
    public String getLastName() {
        return lastName;
    }
}

Scala

class Person(val firstName: String, val lastName: String)

As well as these ones (sorry for not pasting, I didn't want to steal the code)

• Queens-Problem Java
• Queens-Problem Scala