Value Classes

Code like 2 days ago is charming, but what’s the catch? Let’s take a look under the hood to see what the Scala compiler actually did to that expression. Compile the file DateUtil.scala using scalac and run javap -c UseDateUtil\$, the shadow inner class that Scala created for the singleton, and quickly search for the call to the days method. Let’s examine a few lines of bytecode around the method call:

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5: invokevirtual #73 // Method
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DateUtil$.DateHelper:(I)LDateUtil$DateHelper;
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8: getstatic #69 // Field
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DateUtil$.MODULE$:LDateUtil$;
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11: invokevirtual #77 // Method
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DateUtil$.ago:()Ljava/lang/String;
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14: invokevirtual #83 // Method
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DateUtil$DateHelper.days:(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/time/LocalDate;

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