Converting immutable to mutable collections

Question

What is the best way to convert collection.immutable.Set to collection.mutable.Set?

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '10 at 10:29

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scala> var a=collection.mutable.Set[Int](1,2,3)                              
a: scala.collection.mutable.Set[Int] = Set(1, 2, 3)

scala> var b=collection.immutable.Set[Int](1,2,3)
b: scala.collection.immutable.Set[Int] = Set(1, 2, 3)

scala> collection.mutable.Set(b.toArray:_*)      
res0: scala.collection.mutable.Set[Int] = Set(1, 2, 3)

scala> collection.mutable.Set(b.toSeq:_*)  
res1: scala.collection.mutable.Set[Int] = Set(1, 2, 3)

scala> collection.mutable.Set(b.toList:_*)
res2: scala.collection.mutable.Set[Int] = Set(1, 2, 3)

answered Jul 05 '10 at 10:29

barroco

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Out of the three, which is better? – Jus12 Mar 18 '15 at 19:41
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This is one of the top Scala annoyances no doubt. – matanster Jul 05 '16 at 07:06

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 30 '19 at 09:47

Starting Scala 2.13, via factory builders applied with .to(factory):

Set(1, 2, 3).to(collection.mutable.Set)
// collection.mutable.Set[Int] = HashSet(1, 2, 3)

Prior to Scala 2.13 and starting Scala 2.10:

Set(1, 2, 3).to[collection.mutable.Set]
// collection.mutable.Set[Int] = Set(1, 2, 3)

Converting immutable to mutable collections

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