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Chapter 18Pattern Matching in Scala

by Venkat Subramaniam

You’ve seen some examples of Scala’s expressive and concise nature in Chapter 5, Creating Higher-Order Functions in Scala. Pattern matching is another area where you’ll appreciate the elegance of Scala. As you saw in Chapter 10, Patterns and Transformations in Elixir, pattern matching is a natural fit for functional programming, and Scala provides simple yet powerful facilities for pattern matching, as you’ll see in this chapter.

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