An interesting attempt at companion object manipulation. Note that this gets different results when interpreted and when compiled. companionOf is taken from http://stackoverflow.com/a/9174777

ccManipulation.scala

object CC {
  def companionOf[T : Manifest] : Option[AnyRef] = try {
    val classOfT = implicitly[Manifest[T]].erasure
    val companionClassName = classOfT.getName + "$"
    val companionClass = Class.forName(companionClassName)
    val moduleField = companionClass.getField("MODULE$")
    Some(moduleField.get(null))
  } catch {
    case e => None
  }

  def main(args: Array[String]) = {
    case class A(i: Int)
    println(companionOf[A] collect { case a: A.type => a(1) })
  }
}