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It is possible (although not recommended) to declare a public property in a super class and have a private value or variable in a subclass: ...

By default classes, objects and class members (fields, methods) are all public. IE: object  PublicObject {    val  publicVal    var  publicV...

In Scala there is a primary constructor: class  MyClass(constructorParam:Any) . Unlike Java, that constructor must be called. The questio...

One of the most common uses of a companion object (See Companion Objects for more) is as a factory for creating instances of the class. For...

The apply and update methods have special meaning in Scala. They allow a developer to define semantics like java array access for an arbitr...

Scala provides two structures for inheritance. Classes (abstract or not) and traits. Traits are very similar to Ruby Mixins meaning that t...

Case classes are a special type of class that comes with several convenient definitions (equals, hashCode, toString, copy). There are two m...

Scala classes are similar to java classes but are designed to work around some of the boiler plate code. We will address multiple construct...