Scala pattern matching @

A little more aboutpattern 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 withOption:

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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