Preferred way to create a Scala list

Question

There are several ways to construct an immutable list in Scala (see contrived example code below). You can use a mutable ListBuffer, create a var list and modif

Answer 1

Using List.tabulate, like this,

List.tabulate(3)( x => 2*x )
res: List(0, 2, 4)

List.tabulate(3)( _ => Math.random )
res: List(0.935455779102479, 0.6004888906328091, 0.3425278797788426)

List.tabulate(3)( _ => (Math.random*10).toInt )
res: List(8, 0, 7)