Thanks, that's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Very interesting. Are these commonly used in Scala code? It seems that they do away with some of the

Thanks, that's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Very interesting. Are these commonly used in Scala code? It seems that they do away with some of the boilerplate code (in the constructor) and provides some rather nice features. I guess the inventors of Scala has been thinking along similar lines as me ;-)