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In Scala there exist the construct of a ‘case class’. According to Martin Odersky this supports you to write a “regular, non-encapsulated data structure”. It always seems to be associated with pattern matching. So when to use a case class and when to use a ‘plain’ class? I found this nice explanation stating: “Case classes ...