Scala 2

API Specification

This document is the API specification for Scala 2.

Class Summary
abstract class Actor
The class Actor ...
class Channel [a]
This class ...
class Lock
This class ...
class MailBox
This class ...
class Pid
The class Pid provides process identifiers to thread-based actors.
class Process

class SyncChannel [a]
The class SyncChannel ...
class SyncVar [a]
The class SyncVar ...

Trait Summary
abstract trait LinkedListQueueCreator
Efficient queue module creator based on linked lists.
abstract trait ListQueueCreator
Inefficient but simple queue module creator.
abstract trait QueueModule [a]
Module for dealing with queues.

Object Summary
object NameServer

object Process
This object ...
case object TIMEOUT
The message sent to a message box when the period specified in receiveWithin expires.
object jolib
Library for using join-calculus concurrent primitives in Scala.
object ops
The object ops ...
object pilib

Library for using Pi-calculus concurrent primitives in Scala. As an example, the definition of a two-place buffer using the pilib library looks like:

 def Buffer[a](put: Chan[a], get: Chan[a]): unit = {
   def B0: unit = choice ( put * { x => B1(x) } );  
   def B1(x: a): unit = choice ( get(x) * B0, put * { y => B2(x, y) } )
   def B2(x: a, y: a): unit = choice ( get(x) * B1(y) )
   B0
 }