Github user rcsenkbeil commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1929#issuecomment-52117091
@mateiz I don't know what the Scala team's plans would be. I know that the
only suggestion thus far was to wipe the global reference and recreate it
(https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-6502?focusedCommentId=68422&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-68422),
which is not ideal. There hasn't been any discussion since February on this.
On quick glance, it doesn't look like they have fixed anything with the
REPL in 2.11.2. The code was moved
(https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/v2.11.2/src/repl/scala/tools/nsc/interpreter/ILoop.scala),
but has the same issue.
The 2.11.2 REPL gives me the same problem:

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