CHAPTER 8
Scala Type System
Types in a programming language are checked at compile time and can be inferred by a compiler. Scala has a strong and statically typed language with a unified Type system. The two fundamental design considerations of a programming language are static versus dynamic typing and strong versus weak typing.
In static typing, a variable is bound to a particular type. In dynamic typing, the type is bound to the value instead of the variable. Scala and Java are statically typed languages, whereas JavaScript, Python, Groovy, and Ruby, are dynamically typed languages.
If a type is static and strongly typed, every variable must ...
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