GIGO: words unreadable aloud

Scala loading XML files

I worked through the XML example in the scala intro pages, at http://scala.epfl.ch/intro/xml.html . I ran scala teamtest > ttout.xml and then the following code can load that xml file:

/*
 * Try "load"ing one of these babies.
 *     scalac teamload.scala teamlist.scala
 *     scala teamload
 */
import teamlist._ ;     // import generated definitions
import scala.xml.Text ; // for creating PCDATA nodes
object teamload with Application {
  val fn = "ttout.xml" ;
  val top = teamlist.load( fn );
  Console.println( "Original, from " + fn );
  Console.println( top );
}

Next up: experiments with the regular expression patterns described here: http://scala.epfl.ch/intro/regexppat.html

Of the recent additions to the language, those strike me (without any experience yet) as the weirdest new feature.
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