Scala pattern matching on sequences other than Lists

As of the ides of March 2012, this works in 2.10+:

  def doMatch(seq: Seq[Int]): Unit = seq match {
    case last +: Seq() => println("Final element.")
    case head +: tail  => println("Recursing..."); doMatch(tail)
  }                                               //> doMatch: (seq: Seq[Int])Unit

  doMatch(List(1, 2))                             //> Recursing...
                                                  //| Final element.

More generally, two different head/tail and init/last decomposition objects mirroring append/prepend were added for Seq in SeqExtractors:

List(1, 2) match { case init :+ last => last } //> res0: Int = 2                                              
List(1, 2) match { case head +: tail => tail } //> res1: List[Int] = List(2)                                               
Vector(1, 2) match { case init :+ last => last } //> res2: Int = 2                                              
Vector(1, 2) match { case head +: tail => tail } //> res3: scala.collection.immutable.Vector[Int] = Vector(2)