Hi,
I am seeing odd behavior when I redefine a val in the REPL of a recent
release of the spark-shell. Here is my minimal test case:
val a = 1
def id(a:Int) = {a}
val a = 2
a
id(a)
Specifically, if I run "~/spark/bin/spark-shell --master local" and
enter each of these five lines one-by-one (not in :paste mode, because
of the redefinition), I get the output at the end of my message below.
The unusual thing is that "a" returns 2, but "id(a)" still returns 1.
I believe that the example is sensitive to the variable name use! I
can also reproduce the problem with more complicated "dependencies" in
the variable name use, e.g. if I define id using b, but val b was
defined using a:
val a = 1
val b = a // this line is necessary for the problem!
def id(b:Int) = {b}
val a = 2
a
id(a)
I cannot reproduce this behavior in the Scala REPL directly for the
few versions and configurations that I've tried, but I may have not
been able to find the appropriate version. That is, my Scala
interactions have all returned 2 for both of the last two expressions.
Does anyone have any thoughts? Is this the desired behavior for some
reason? Or is this a bug? Why does it happen in either case?
Thanks!
Boris
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scala> val a = 1
a: Int = 1
scala> def id(a:Int) = {a}
id: (a: Int)Int
scala> val a = 2
a: Int = 2
scala> a
res0: Int = 2
scala> id(a)
res1: Int = 1
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