List and Tuples in Scala

Question

From the book \'Programming in Scala\' by Martin Odersky:

Another useful container object is the tuple. Like lists, tuples are immutable, but unlike lis

Answer 1

Just a note. If you get the Class Name of the List element, somehow Scala knows the type. Type inference maybe?

scala> val l = List(1,2,3,"Adriano Avelar")
val l: List[Any] = List(1, 2, 3, Adriano Avelar)

scala> print(l(3).getClass.getSimpleName)
String

scala> print(l(2).getClass.getSimpleName)
Integer