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Changes in Version 2.8.0 (14-Jul-2010)
Scala 2.8.0 is a significantly innovative release, which
contains a large amount of fixes and introduces many new
features:
* Redesigned collection library
* New array implementation, manifests for polymorphic arrays
* Type specialization
* Named and default arguments
* Package objects
* Beefed up Scala Swing libraries, better documentation
* Revamped REPL
* Implicits changes
* Improved equality
* Packrat parser combinators
* Improved XML library
* Type constructor inference
* Improved Annotations
* Enhanced actors
* Support for continuations
Internal improvements
* New presentation compiler
* New build manager
* Speed improvements
Additional tools
* Scaladoc 2
* Sbaz 2
* Scalap
* Scala IDE for Eclipse
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