August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
10h 2m
English
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Rich Wrapper pattern
In this section, we will start our journey to understand the pattern of type classes. We'll start by covering the idea of the Rich Wrapper pattern. The pattern is specific to Scala, but it introduces the problem of separating data from behavior, which becomes important in the Type Class pattern.