Take the following example, why is the extractor called multiple times as opposed to temporarily storing the results of the first call and matching against that. Wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that results from unapply
would not change given the same string.
object Name {
val NameReg = """^(\w+)\s(?:(\w+)\s)?(\w+)$""".r
def unapply(fullName: String): Option[(String, String, String)] = {
val NameReg(fname, mname, lname) = fullName
Some((fname, if (mname == null) "" else mname, lname))
}
}
"John Smith Doe" match {
case Name("Jane", _, _) => println("I know you, Jane.")
case Name(f, "", _) => println(s"Hi ${f}")
case Name(f, m, _) => println(s"Howdy, ${f} ${m}.")
case _ => println("Don't know you")
}