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		awj on Sept 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clojure vs Scala - Anecdote His argument was: if the only two things your class does are take in a string when constructed and return it on demand, you don't need the class.

BrandonM on Sept 13, 2011 [–]

Exactly... in this case, the functionality of Artist() is a subset of the functionality of str(). In Python, you would just name the variable "artist", assign a string to it, and be done with it.

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