Scala for comprehension with special treatment of empty list

Question

Is there a more functional way of doing the following?

if (myList.isEmpty) {
    println("Empty list")
} else for (element <- myList) {
    println(element)
}

Maybe something like:

for (element <- myList) {
    println(element)
} orElse {
    println("Empty list")
}

Answer 1

What you have seems fine, but one variation might be:

myList match {
  case Nil => println("Empty list")
  case _ => myList.foreach(println)
}