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Initialize a list using cons and Nil

You just initialized the prizes list like this:

val prizes = List(10, 15, 20, 25, 30)

That's works great! There's also another commonly used technique that combines the cons (::) operator and Nil, which is the empty list.

In this exercise, you'll initialize the same prizes list from last exercise, just using this fancy, efficient shorthand.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Scala

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Exercise instructions

  • Using :: and Nil, initialize a list named prizes with an element each round's prize, where the first through fifth round's prizes are 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30, respectively.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

// Initialize a list with an element each round's prize
val prizes = ___
println(prizes)
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