Well I said "they offer more" and not "they will always offer more". So I stand by what I said. > In the case of records, they're treated in a special way by t

Well I said "they offer more" and not "they will always offer more". So I stand by what I said. > In the case of records, they're treated in a special way by the runtime (e.g. in serialisation). Scala will use them as underlying implementation (just like it will do with value-types, functions and so on).