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5. Pattern Matching

David Pollak1  , Vishal Layka2 and Andres Sacco3
(1)
San Francisco, CA, USA
(2)
Bruxelles, Belgium
(3)
Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
 

So far, you’ve explored some of the basic functional cornerstones of Scala: immutable data types and the passing of functions as parameters. The third cornerstone of functional programming is pattern matching. Pattern matching provides a powerful tool for declaring business logic in a concise and maintainable way. Scala blends traditional functional programming pattern matching with object-oriented concepts to provide a very ...

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