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This topic is a continuation of the previous implicit parameter topics: Implicit Parameters Companion Object Implicits This topic provides...

Evidently the topic of implicit parameters has not yet been correctly addressed. There have been several topic that refer to implicit param...

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...

One performance/consistency change that has been make in Scala 2.8 is to make Scala Array always be a Java Array. This has some consequence...

Suppose you are creating a DSL and you want to implicitly convert 2 values to a particular object: val  v : SomeObject = (2, 3) This is easi...

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...

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...

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

Added in Scala 2.7 as an experimental feature is the manifest class it is a handy class allowing for very limited type reification. Take the...

Defined in the Predef object are several implicit methods. All implicit methods defined in the Predef method are applicable to all programs...

The collections APIs in Scala are completely separate from those in Java, the primary reason is because they are designed from the ground up...

Scala is designed to be a scalable language and one if the features that assist in realizing this goal are implicit methods. I have seen it ...