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This chapter will discuss the difference between objects in Scala and Instance of a class. This is important as many other object-oriented languages use these terms interchangeably. However, in Scala they are significantly different concepts, defined with different language constructs and used in different ways.
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Hunt, J. (2014). Objects and Instances. In: A Beginner's Guide to Scala, Object Orientation and Functional Programming. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06776-6_14
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