Scala For Comprehensions are Their Own Reward

val one = "This checks for scala or sbt patterns"
val two = "java rocks"
val sentences = List(one, two)
val dict = List("scala", "sbt", "patterns")

val result = for {
    sentence <- sentences
    does = dict forall sentence.contains
} yield (sentence, does)

//result: List[(String, Boolean)] = List((This checks for scala or sbt patterns,true), (java rocks,false))

Given a list of sentences the comprehension checks to see if every word in a dictionary (list) appears in each sentence and returns a list of pairs containing the sentence and the result.

For comprehensions are really powerful, and useful applications of functional programming concepts such as map and flatMap, in a sugared expressive style. One of the many reasons Scala is such an interesting and fun language to use.

This is a good post that describes the idiomatic applications of the for comprehension in Scala.