Effective Scala, part 7 - entry point of a project

While a scala worksheet are evaluated from top to bottom, a scala project needs an entry point.

Only two requirements:

• It needs to be a top-level method or an object-level method, but not a class-level method
• It needs to be annotated with @main

Otherwise

• It can be named anything.
• It can be put in an arbitrary source file.

A source file in a project cannot contain top-level statements (e.g., println), only top-level definitions (def, val, var, trait, object, class definitions) .