When to use case class or regular class

Question

I have some misunderstanding in what cases I should use case class or regular class following by best practices. I have already read about differences of both classes but ca

Answer 1

Case Classes are normal classes with syntactic sugar. So there is no real big difference, you can do everything with a case class you can do with a class and vice versa.

Case classes just save you a lot of boiler plate code to write.

Perfect fit, as the name suggests, is the use of case classes in pattern matching with case.

case class MyCase(name: String, age: Int)

data : List[MyCase] = ...

data foreach { 
    case MyCase(_, age) if age > 21 => println("old enough")
    case MyCase("fred", _ ) => println("Got you")
    case _ => ...
}