Canonical way for empty Array in Scala?

Question

What is the canonical way to get an empty array in Scala? new Array[String](0) is too verbose.

Answer 1

If the array type is one of the primitives, you can use the shortcuts from scala.Array.

For example for a byte array it would be:

val arr = Array.emptyByteArray

This is useful when the type cannot be inferred and you want to remain less verbose.