Scala Snippet: Case Class vs plain ordinary Class
In Scala there exist the construct of a ‘case class’. According to Martin Odersky this supports you to write a “regular, non-encapsulated data structure”. It always seems to be associated with pattern...
View ArticleScala Snippet: Object, Companion Object and Static Methods
If you are a Java developer moving to Scala, one notable difference in terminology that can cause confusion is the term ‘object’. In Java an object is always an instance of a class, created by calling...
View ArticleScala Snippet: multiline statements in the REPL console
One of the coolest things a standard Scala install will give you, is the Scala interpreter. Technically speaking, this is not an interpreter. In the background, each statement is quickly compiled into...
View ArticleScala Snippet: How to filter a list in Scala
In Scala, filtering and processing collections is easy and elegant. There are many filtermethods available, but the most used will probably the basic filter method.Here’s a code example of some...
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