Scala case class inheritance

My preferred way of avoiding case class inheritance without code duplication is somewhat obvious: create a common (abstract) base class:

abstract class Person {
  def name: String
  def age: Int
  // address and other properties
  // methods (ideally only accessors since it is a case class)
}

case class Employer(val name: String, val age: Int, val taxno: Int)
    extends Person

case class Employee(val name: String, val age: Int, val salary: Int)
    extends Person

If you want to be more fine-grained, group the properties into individual traits:

trait Identifiable { def name: String }
trait Locatable { def address: String }
// trait Ages { def age: Int }

case class Employer(val name: String, val address: String, val taxno: Int)
    extends Identifiable
    with    Locatable

case class Employee(val name: String, val address: String, val salary: Int)
    extends Identifiable
    with    Locatable

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