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Asked: 2026-05-20T07:41:51+00:00

In Haskell, I can write read (1,2) and get back the tuple (1,2) .

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In Haskell, I can write read "(1,2)" and get back the tuple (1,2). Is there any way to do this in Scala? I guess what I’m looking for is access to the parser in the scala interpreter.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve you tried to poke around in scala.tools.nsc ?

    Is something like that enough for you needs (or, at least, a good start point) ?

    scala> val interpreter = new tools.nsc.Interpreter
interpreter: scala.tools.nsc.Interpreter = scala.tools.nsc.Interpreter@522c5afb

scala> interpreter interpret "(3, 5)"
res0: (Int, Int) = (3,5)
res139: scala.tools.nsc.InterpreterResults.Result = Success

scala> interpreter interpret "1 to 10 toList"
res1: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
res140: scala.tools.nsc.InterpreterResults.Result = Success

    [Edit: it seems that tools.nsc.Interpreter is deprecated. There is now a tools.nsc.interpreter package]

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