Scala 2.8 has manifests, which reify generic types. What do you wish you could do with reified types that you can't do with manifests? Also, in Scala 2.7 I wro

Scala 2.8 has manifests, which reify generic types. What do you wish you could do with reified types that you can't do with manifests? Also, in Scala 2.7 I wrote my own library to wrap Java collections that didn't take much time or effort and allowed me to seamlessly pass scala collections to java code and use java collections the same as scala ones. Scala 2.8 is supposed to have such a library built in so you don't have to write it. Lastly, your comparison between Scala's functional lists and Java's ArrayList is pointless. Scala has an ArrayBuffer class too, so you can choose between either as appropriate. You can also pattern match against ArrayBuffer as well.