I fully agree and I do follow the rule while developing Scala applications, but since Scala is a statically typed language knowing the type while reading the docs helps comprehending what types are in play. That was the only reason to include them to let users open the scaladoc and search for more information with the types explicitly described.

I myself was wondering what types should I be reading about and although I had started with `ssc` and followed along, I found it a bit troublesome for newcomers to Spark and Scala. *The easier the better* was the idea behind the change.

In Spark's [Quick Start](http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/quick-start.html) it's quite different where the types are presented with the results.

In either case, I needed types while reading along without access to Spark's shell/REPL.

Would you agree with the reasoning?