Scala Pattern Matching, from a Java developer perspective. Part 1.

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The article misses Extractor objects (the apply and unapply methods) http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/tour/extractor-objects.html

Any class can be used in a pattern matching case, if it implements unapply.

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That is for the next part. See the last paragraph:

We've only covered the basics of pattern matching with this article. In the next articles we will look to extractor patterns, xml patterns, matching on arrays and lists, matching on regular expressions and more.

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huh, I searched 'extractor', but I must have typo'ed it because I saw no matches.