Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics

Type inference

If you are not familiar with the term, it is nothing but the deduction of types at compile time. Hold on, isn't that what dynamic typing means? Well, no. Notice that I said deduction of types; this is drastically different from what dynamically typed languages do, and another thing is, it is done at compile time and not runtime. Many languages have this built in, but the implementation varies from one language to another. This might be confusing at the beginning, but it will become clearer with code examples. Let's jump into the Scala REPL for some experimentation.