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{% comment %}
NOTE: It would be nice to simplify this more.
{% endcomment %}

_Scala 2 has a weaker form of structural types based on Java reflection, achieved with `import scala.language.reflectiveCalls`_.

## Introduction

Some use cases, such as modeling database access, are more awkward in statically typed languages than in dynamically typed languages.
With dynamically typed languages, it’s natural to model a row as a record or object, and to select entries with simple dot notation, e.g. `row.columnName`.

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