JavaZone 2010 - Pattern matching in Scala
Are you sick of the huge amounts of if-statements, instanceof-checks and type-casts it can take to destructure and match on a datastructure in Java. Does it annoy you that you can't switch on whatever you want or that you can't catch two kinds of exceptions in one catch block ?
Then this talk is for you.
Scala is here and packs a huge amount of cool features, many unknown to Java developers.
One of those features is 'Pattern matching'.
This talk will guide you through Pattern matching and explain what it is, how it works and how you can use it to write incredibly declarative code.
Jon-Anders Teigen
Jon-Anders is a consultant at Arktekk doing various Java related stuff
He's been in love with Scala for about three years and has contributed to several open source scala projects during that time.
Besides writing code he has co-founded scalaBin - the Norwegian Scala User Group, and is part of the JavaZone Program Committee