[bad_user]

In Scala you can specialize for primitives btw. It has some gotchas, but if you know what you're doing, it works OK.

[pjmlp]

Thanks for the hint.

Actually, in terms of alternative FP JVM languages, I am more into Clojure than Scala, even though I am a big ML fan.

So I my Scala knowledge is currently at Scala 2.8 level and I wasn't aware of it.