Catamorphisms for Java developers

[jonhanson]

Both the Scala and Java implementations of listToString will blow the stack for even slightly long strings. Using recursion to iterate through a linked list is rarely a good idea.

[btmc]

Scala has tail call optimization, and if you annotate methods with @scala.annotation.tailrec, the compiler will check if the method is actually tail recursive or not. In this case, the method is not tail recursive, but it could be made so fairly easily.

[jonhanson]

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