MUST NOT use "var" inside a case class
Case classes are syntactic sugar for defining classes in which - all constructor arguments are public and immutable and thus part of the value's identity, have structural equality, a corresponding hashCode implementation and apply/unapply auto-generated functions provided by the compiler.By doing this:
case class Sample(str: String, var number: Int)As a general rule of thumb, structural equality only works for immutable things, because the equality operation must be stable (and not change according to the object's history). Case classes are for strictly immutable things. If you need to mutate stuff, don't use case classes.
"The Joy of Clojure": if any two mutable objects resolve as being equal now, then there’s no guarantee that they will a moment from now.
And if two objects aren’t equal forever, then they’re technically never equal ;-)
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