Practical examples of using symbols in Scala?
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Scala has symbols - names that start with a single quote ' and which are a kind of string constants.
I know symbols from Ruby (where they start with a colon). In Ruby they are used for some meta-programming tasks, like generating getters and setters for member variables (for example attr_reader :name
to generate a getter for name
).
I haven't seen a lot of use of symbols in Scala code yet. What are practical uses for symbols in Scala?
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