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Scala Design Patterns - Second Edition

By : Ivan Nikolov
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Scala Design Patterns - Second Edition

By: Ivan Nikolov

Overview of this book

Design patterns make developers’ lives easier by helping them write great software that is easy to maintain, runs efficiently, and is valuable to the company or people concerned. You’ll learn about the various features of Scala and will be able to apply well-known, industry-proven design patterns in your work. The book starts off by focusing on some of the most interesting and latest features of Scala while using practical real-world examples. We will be learning about IDE’s and Aspect Oriented Programming. We will be looking into different components in Scala. We will also cover the popular "Gang of Four" design patterns and show you how to incorporate functional patterns effectively. The book ends with a practical example that demonstrates how the presented material can be combined in real-life applications. You’ll learn the necessary concepts to build enterprise-grade applications. By the end of this book, you’ll have enough knowledge and understanding to quickly assess problems and come up with elegant solutions.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

The pimp my library design pattern

In our daily job as developers, we often use different libraries. They, however, are usually made to be generic and allow many people to use them, so sometimes we need to do something extra that is specific to our use case in order to make things work properly. The fact that we cannot really modify the original library code means that we have to do something different. We have already looked at the decorator and the adapter design patterns. Well, pimp my library achieves something similar, but it does this in the Scala way and some of the extra work is given to the compiler to deal with.

The pimp my library design pattern is really similar to extension methods in C#. We will see some examples in the following subsections.

Using pimp my library

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