Working with Lists
Lists are probably the most common data structure used in Scala. In the following lesson, you will learn how to create a List.
Introduction
A List in Scala is a collection which comes under the Seq class. It is an immutable collection and hence when modified the original List does not get updated, rather, a new List is created.
Like Arrays and ArrayBuffers, Lists store elements of the same type.
Creating a List
Lists can be created and populated in multiple different ways, most of which are identical to the approaches we went over when discussing Arrays. Let’s quickly go over them.
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