What is Scala's yield?

Question

I understand Ruby and Python\'s yield. What does Scala\'s yield do?

Answer 1

val aList = List( 1,2,3,4,5 )

val res3 = for ( al <- aList if al > 3 ) yield al + 1
val res4 = aList.filter(_ > 3).map(_ + 1)

println( res3 )
println( res4 )

These two pieces of code are equivalent.

val res3 = for (al <- aList) yield al + 1 > 3
val res4 = aList.map( _+ 1 > 3 )

println( res3 ) 
println( res4 )

These two pieces of code are also equivalent.

Map is as flexible as yield and vice-versa.