Created by odersky on 2010-12-15. Updated: 2010-12-15, 13:07

The Scala 2.8 Collections API contains a large number of collection operations, which exist uniformly on many different collection implementations.

These pages describe the architecture of the Scala collections framework in detail. Compared to the the description of the Scala 2.8 Collections API you will find out more about the internal workings of the framework. You will also learn how this architecture helps you define your own collections in a few lines of code, while reusing the overwhelming part of collection functionality from the framework.