I don't think this code should work, but it does (in Scala 2.10):
scala> ((i: Int) => i.toString match {
| case s if s.length == 2 => "A two digit number"
| case s if s.length == 3 => "A three digit number"
| }): PartialFunction[Int,String]
res0: PartialFunction[Int,String] = <function1>
// other interactions omitted
scala> res0.orElse(PartialFunction((i: Int) => i.toString))
res5: PartialFunction[Int,String] = <function1>
scala> res5(1)
res6: String = 1
How does it work? I would expect a MatchError
to be thrown inside res0
.
The Scala language specification does not seem to explicitly document how res0
should be interpreted.