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In a previous post about abstract types I showed one of the benefits of using abstract types over parameterized types. Abstract Types vs Pa...

When a method requires an implicit there are several ways that the implicit is resolved. One way is to search for an implicit definition in...

At first glance the "sself annotation" declaration seems similar to extending another class. (For a look at self annotations read...

This tip is a cool tip based on Daniel's Use Implicits to Select Types post. That post goes into more detail. The idea is that dependi...

A commenter (Brian Howard) on the post Overcoming Type Erasure in Matching 1 made a very good point: Is there a way to deal with some type ...

Since Scala runs on the JVM (it also runs on .NET but we this tip is aimed at Scala on the JVM) much of the type information that is availab...

Manifests are Scala's solution to Java's type erasure. It is not a complete solution as of yet but it does have several useful appl...

This topic combines advanced two topics. types and implicit methods. This topic is not really intended to be instructional as much as a il...

One of the blessings and curses of Scala the several rules for creating expressive code (curse because it can be used for evil.) One such ru...