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Binary Integer Literals
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Programmatic Structural Types
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Wildcard Arguments in Types
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Changes in Type Inference
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Match Expressions
Vararg Splices
Pattern Bindings
Option-less pattern matching
Automatic Eta Expansion
Changes in Compiler Plugins
Lazy Vals Initialization
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Escapes in interpolations
Dropped Features
Dropped: DelayedInit
Dropped: Scala 2 Macros
Dropped: Existential Types
Dropped: General Type Projection
Dropped: Do-While
Dropped: Procedure Syntax
Dropped: Early Initializers
Dropped: Class Shadowing
Dropped: Limit 22
Dropped: XML Literals
Dropped: Symbol Literals
Dropped: Auto-Application
Dropped: Weak Conformance
Deprecated: Nonlocal Returns
Dropped: private[this] and protected[this]
Dropped: Wildcard Initializer
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Named Type Arguments
Numeric Literals
Explicit Nulls
MainAnnotation
The `into` Type Modifier
Capture Checking
Pure Function Syntax
Tupled Function
Modularity Improvements
Better Support for Type Classes
The runtimeChecked method
Automatic Parameter Unrolling
Reference-able Package Objects
Scala 3 Syntax Summary
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Soft Keywords
A Classification of Proposed Language Features
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