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As well as providing switch-like functionality (that's more powerful than Java's version), pattern matching offers a rich set of "patterns" that can be used to match against. In this chapter, we'll look at the anatomy of patterns and talk through some examples, including literal, constructor, and type query patterns.
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Weston, T. (2018). Pattern Matching. In: Scala for Java Developers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3108-1_16
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