Absolute beginner question

Funny you couldn't find anything.   Basically, Scala requirest `hostname` to be reachable on the network. If you can't ping it, you can't use neither "scala" nor "fsc". You can use "scalac" to compile, though.   The reason for that is that "fsc" install itself as a daemon, to speed up compilation. The "scala" command, used for scripts and REPL, uses "fsc" to improve its own performance.   My suggestion, edit /etc/hosts and add your hostname to the line with 127.0.0.1.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:04 PM, lezzgiles <lezzgiles [at] gmail [dot] com> wrote:

On FC11, just downloaded & installed scala using yum install scala, got
version 2.7.4.

I've run it interactively and it works fine.

I create a one-line hello world script...

println("Hello, world from a script!")

...and run it...

[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$ scala hello.scala
bedroom: bedroom
[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$

Note that "bedroom" is my hostname.  I've googled for some kind of answer,
but can't find anything.  If I try it with a non-existent file, it does the
sensible thing:

[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$ scala /no-such-file
no such file: /no-such-file
[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$

If I try it with a file that doesn't contain valid scala, it also just
prints out the hostname a couple of times:

[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$ scala ~/.bash_profile
bedroom: bedroom
[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$

I really want to start playing with this language, but I'm sort-of stuck
here...

Lezz Giles
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We've seen something like this on the lists before.
In that case it was a problem with networking config on the machine

Take a look at this thread:
http://old.nabble.com/println-don't-work-to25194605.html#a25195269

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:04 PM, lezzgiles wrote:
>
> On FC11, just downloaded & installed scala using yum install scala, got
> version 2.7.4.
>
> I've run it interactively and it works fine.
>
> I create a one-line hello world script...
>
> println("Hello, world from a script!")
>
> ...and run it...
>
> [lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$ scala hello.scala
> bedroom: bedroom
> [lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$
>
> Note that "bedroom" is my hostname.  I've googled for some kind of answer,
> but can't find anything.  If I try it with a non-existent file, it does the
> sensible thing:
>
> [lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$ scala /no-such-file
> no such file: /no-such-file
> [lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$
>
> If I try it with a file that doesn't contain valid scala, it also just
> prints out the hostname a couple of times:
>
> [lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$ scala ~/.bash_profile
> bedroom: bedroom
> [lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$
>
> I really want to start playing with this language, but I'm sort-of stuck
> here...
>
> Lezz Giles
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> View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Absolute-beginner-question-tp26222796p26222796.html
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>
>

OOPS! didn't reply to all:
2.7.4 is fairly old, but I just tried that version and it worked fine. Try "set -x" on the command line, then run it. I'm not sure it will tell us anything, but...
dean
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:04 PM, lezzgiles <lezzgiles [at] gmail [dot] com> wrote:

On FC11, just downloaded & installed scala using yum install scala, got
version 2.7.4.

I've run it interactively and it works fine.

I create a one-line hello world script...

println("Hello, world from a script!")

...and run it...

[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$ scala hello.scala
bedroom: bedroom
[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$

Note that "bedroom" is my hostname.  I've googled for some kind of answer,
but can't find anything.  If I try it with a non-existent file, it does the
sensible thing:

[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$ scala /no-such-file
no such file: /no-such-file
[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$

If I try it with a file that doesn't contain valid scala, it also just
prints out the hostname a couple of times:

[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$ scala ~/.bash_profile
bedroom: bedroom
[lezzgiles@bedroom scala]$

I really want to start playing with this language, but I'm sort-of stuck
here...

Lezz Giles
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