Companion objects

Companion objects are not very different to what we have already seen when we discussed objects. One specific difference is that we name those the same as our class names. It means that instead of defining CountryUtil, we can give this object the same name as our Country class and call it our companion object:

class Country(val name: String, val capital: String){ 
  var populationMap = scala.collection.mutable.Map[String, Double]() 
  def getPopulation(year: String): Double = populationMap(year) //In Million 
 
  override def toString: String = s"Country($name,$capital)" 
} 
 
object Country { 
  /* 
  * Function takes a sequence of population per million and returns average. 
  * */ 
  def populationAverage(pops: Seq[Double]) = pops.sum / pops.length 
} 
 
object CountryApp extends App { 
  val country = new Country("France", "Paris") 
  country.populationMap += ("2015" -> 64.39) += ("2016" -> 64.67) += ("2017" -> 64.93) 
 
  println(s"Country Name: ${country.name...