An introduction to Futures and Promises, and the "Try" type (scala.util.Try) coming in Scala 2.10. (Joint work with Philipp Haller). Props to Viktor Klang-- excellent java.concurrent.util.Future illustration taken from his ScalaDays 2012 talk on the same subject.
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