Welcome back to this amazing series of Combating Fallacy in Scala: Part 2. For this part, the topic will be “Tuple Unpacking”. So, let’s move forward.
Tuple Unpacking
Before looking into this, let’s have a look at Tuple in Scala.
According to the Scala Docs “A tuple is a neat class that gives you a simple way to store heterogeneous (different) items in the same container.“
A tuple provides us with a container that can store different types of values. It can have up to 22 elements.
Let’s look at an example of a tuple:
And this is how we access the values:
Now, what if we don’t want to access the variables in the way shown in the above picture?
The other way could be doing tuple unpacking. In this, we bind every value in the tuple with a variable/reference. This is done using Pattern Matching internally.
Now, we will look at a situation and I’ll give you some options so that we can figure out the correct way of doing tuple unpacking. Consider, we have a tuple containing name and age of the person and I want to access both of them individually.
Here is that tuple :
Option 1:
Option 2:
Option 3:
What do you think? Are all of them correct or should Option 2 and 3 both work?
Time to Reveal
The correct option is Option 3.
You might think why not the second one or the first. So, the reasons are the following:
- Option 1 is simply an assignment operation. Now the value in “nany” will be the same as in “tuple”.
- Option 2, is a way to assign the same expression to multiple variables.
Now, I hope that from next time you will avoid this small mistake. That’s all for this blog. You can also visit the previous blog in this series, Combating Fallacy in Scala: Part 1. Do share your feedback in the comment section below.
