Scala: Pattern matching when one of two items meets some condition

Question

I\'m often writing code that compares two objects and produces a value based on whether they are the same, or different, based on how they are different.

So I might writ

Answer 1

How about this:

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scala> def m(v1: Any,v2: Any) = (v1,v2) match {
     |     case (Some(x),Some(y)) => "a"
     |     case (Some(_),None) | (None,Some(_)) => "b"
     |     case _ => "c"
     | }
m: (v1: Any,v2: Any)java.lang.String

scala> m(Some(1),Some(2))
res0: java.lang.String = a

scala> m(Some(1),None)
res1: java.lang.String = b

scala> m(None,None)
res2: java.lang.String = c

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