That's the great thing (and the point of many of the comments in this thread) about Scala - you don't have to do any FP with Scala if you so choose. You can operate in a completely OO fashion and gain all of the benefits of the language (primarily the type system) for free.
People promoting this view fail to understand that people work in teams and it only takes one FP zealot to force everyone to do FP and your PRs don't get merged unless it's idiomatic Scala.
