Why are scala docs methods missing?

Question

I tried to learn scala. One thing I noticed is the quality of the documents. They seem to have skipped a lot of methods. Is it intentional? I feel like I'm missing something because they can't be so bad.

For instance:

Blog post about reading files using scala. In a blog post, we recommend using the scala.io.Source.fromFile (..) method to read the file. It provides an iterator. It looks very nice. I want to better understand the class, so I will move on to scala documents on scala.io.Source .

No where in the docs does it show the method for scala.io.Source.fromFile (..). When I go into my IDE, it tries to autocomplete Source.fromFile (..), and it even works in code.

This happened to me before when I tried to use the scala api database. Am I missing something? Is there a secret button that pulls up this method? Have I been blind all my life without realizing it? Or are the skaladoks really so bad?

Answer 1

fromFile not a method of the Source class, it is a method of the Source object. That is, you cannot write

 val source: Source = ... source.fromFile(...) 

You are looking at documentation for a class that does not list object methods. The object documentation link is a circle with a C next to the class name at the top.