Re: Scala Object Notation ( SCON? )

Rickard Nilsson wrote:
> Another related thing I wish for is some lightweight
> syntax for using case classes as immutable records,
> (in Haskell-style, among others).
> 
> So following your example I would like to do:
> 
>   val p = Person {
>     name = "Peter"
>     age = 20
>     ...
>   }
> 
>   val q = p { name = "Rickard" }
> 
> where p gets all the attributes from p, with the
> name updated. I would find this very useful. Any
> suggestions for doing something similar without
> any new special syntax?
> 
> 
>   / Rickard

The Haskell-record syntax (or similar) would be great! In the meantime,
I have been writing a function for each field. For your example, I would
write name: Person -> String -> Person

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