Question

assuming I running Scala 2.8.0 RC1, the following scala code should print out the content of the file “c:/hello.txt”

for ( line<-Source.fromPath( "c:/hello.txt" ).getLines )    
        println( line )

However, when I run it, I get the following error

<console>:10: error: missing arguments for method getLines in class Source;
follow this method with `_' if you want to treat it as a partially applied function
Error occured in an application involving default arguments.
       val it = Source.fromPath("c:/hello.scala").getLines

From what I understand, Scala should use the default argument “compat.Platform.EOL” for “getLines”. I am wondering if I did wrong or is it a bug in scala 2.8

Thanks

Answer 1

Write getLines() instead, so that the default gets used.