Date: 2013may15 Language: Scala Q. Scala: What's the nice way to set values in a Scala map? A. You can use equals like a regular assignment. For example... In Java:

import java.util.HashMap; HashMap<String,String> h = new HashMap<String,String>(); h.put("key", "val"); // Ugly function call syntax

In Scala:

import collection.mutable var h = mutable.HashMap[String,String]() h("key") = "val" // The nice equals syntax