Comment by mark242

I mean, reading this article is basically a giant advertisement for Scala and its powerful pattern matching.

  functionThatReturnsAnyVal match {
    case i: Int if i > 2 => System.out.println("Greater than 2")
    case i: Int => System.out.println("Less than or equal to 2")
    case s: String => System.out.println("Hello, " + s)
    case _ =>
  }