Where to put package objects
Package objects are compiled to class files named package.class
which are the located in the directory of the package that they
augment.
So the package object fruits would be complied to a
class with fully qualified name gardening.fruit.package (Note that, even though
package is a reserved word in Java and Scala, it is still allowed as part of a class
name on the JVM level. In Scala, you can even define it directly, using backticks:
package gardening.fruits |
object `package` { ... }
|
It's useful to keep the same convention for source files. So
you would typically put the source file of the package object
gardening.fruits into a file named
package.scala that resides in the gardening/fruits directory.
Next: The Scala package object