Scala - Two Lists to Tuple List

Question

Last year I had quite a bit of experience with standard ML, but I haven\'t done any real functional programming in about 10 months. Now that I\'m on the Scala bandwagon, I\'

Answer 1

You're right you can use zip:

val a = List("a","b","c")
// a: List[String] = List(a, b, c)

val b = List(1,2,3)
// b: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3)

a zip b  // beautified a.zip(b) 
//res0: List[(String, Int)] = List((a,1), (b,2), (c,3))