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Mastering Functional Programming
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Mastering Functional Programming

by Anatolii Kmetiuk
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
10h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Traits

The concept of an object-oriented interface is encapsulated in a trait in Scala. Similarly to an interface, a trait can have abstract members. However, unlike Java interfaces, traits may also have concrete members. These are injected into the implementing classes:

scala> :paste// Entering paste mode (ctrl-D to finish)trait Foo {  def saySomething = println("I am inherited from Foo")}// Exiting paste mode, now interpreting.defined trait Foo

Just like in Java, Scala classes can implement more than one trait. However, since traits in Scala can have concrete members, a new inheritance model that allows for that is required.

In Scala, a so-called linearization model is implemented. This means that whenever a class is inherited from ...

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