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Relative scala newbie here. This looks pretty nice, thanks!

I think I'm not alone in learning to use new languages and libraries primarily by inhaling example code. Why not provide a couple relatively trivial programs, and then a couple non-trivial ones to demonstrate some particularly powerful / elegant aspect of your approach? It's good advertising too.

Also, github lets you use README.md with markdown formatting, to make the readme more legible / fancy.

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Thank you.

I wrote a card game (Ambition) back in 2003 and I'm considering OSing the rules to that, in Scala. That might be a better read for intro Scala because the space (in a card game) is more closed. This is more abstract, with the NodeT's and EdgeT's.

Odersky's Scala book, by the way, is really good.

Which book? Could you edit in a link? Thanks!

This would be it: http://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala

this is complete text of 1st edition, written for scala 2.7. Probably about 1/4 of the text is unchanged between editions, maybe less, but will give you good feel for writing style, depth of coverage.

http://www.artima.com/pins1ed/

The 2nd edition is an excellent learning and language survey resource. Also, the books' index is superb.

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