A little more about pattern matching !
And we are going to learn about a new operator: @ !
The operator @ allows you to capture the full entity the pattern matching has matched on.
It is convenient in numerous use case but here is a few examples.
case a @ "something" => // something with a
It is also very convenient in cases with Option:
opt match {
case s @ Some("abc") => s
case _ => Some(default)
}
Without it you would have to recreate a new object instead of reusing the one we already have.
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