Scala equivalent of .NET's Task.Factory.StartNew?

Question

In C# you can write:

var alphaTask = Task.Factory.StartNew<alpha>(() =>
{
    return someWork(n);<br>
});
// ... do some other work, and later get the result from the task<br>
var res = alphaTask.Result;

How would this simple construction look like in Scala?
Thank you.

Answer 1

In Scala 2.8, the simplest equivalent would be

val future = Futures.future{
                someWork(n)
           }
// ... do some other work, and later get the result from the task
val res = future();