Last year I had quite a bit of experience with standard ML, but I haven't done any real functional programming in about 10 months. Now that I'm on the Scala bandwagon, I'm having trouble finding an operation which I used extensively in standard ML when writing a compiler (although to be fair, this method may not have been a library method).
Basically, I have two lists:
List("a","b","c")
List(1,2,3)
And I want an operation that will give me a list of tuples like this:
List(("a",1), ("b",2), ("c",3))
Is there a standard Scala function I can use to get this result? (I think we called it a zip function in standard ML, but that seems to refer to something different when I was searching for Scala zip functions.)