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 ## Introduction
 
-Value classes are a new mechanism in Scala to avoid allocating runtime objects.
-This is accomplished through the definition of new `AnyVal` subclasses.
-They were proposed in [SIP-15](https://docs.scala-lang.org/sips/pending/value-classes.html).
+First proposed in [SIP-15](https://docs.scala-lang.org/sips/pending/value-classes.html) and introduced in Scala 2.10.0, value classes are a mechanism in Scala to avoid allocating runtime objects. This is accomplished through the definition of new `AnyVal` subclasses.
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 The following shows a very minimal value class definition:
 
     class Wrapper(val underlying: Int) extends AnyVal