August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
10h 2m
English
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Inheritance model
Scala features a lot of object-oriented functionality. This means it supports inheritance concepts that are core to the object-oriented programming. Moreover, since Scala compiles to the Java Virtual Machine, it is essential that it supports the same model as Java for Java interoperability reasons.