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implicit Any/AnyRef disaster #6899

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scabug opened this issue Dec 31, 2012 · 3 comments
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implicit Any/AnyRef disaster #6899

scabug opened this issue Dec 31, 2012 · 3 comments
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scabug commented Dec 31, 2012

% rcscala
Welcome to Scala version 2.10.0-RC5 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.7.0_10).
Type in expressions to have them evaluated.
Type :help for more information.

scala> def f(x: scala.collection.GenSeqLike[_,_]): AnyRef = x
f: (x: scala.collection.GenSeqLike[_, _])AnyRef

scala> f(Nil).getClass
res0: Class[_ <: AnyRef] = class scala.collection.parallel.package$$anon$2

See https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/scala-internals/cwEyQCmjX24 for some elaboration.

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scabug commented Dec 31, 2012

Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-6899?orig=1
Reporter: @paulp
Affected Versions: 2.10.0

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scabug commented Jan 10, 2013

@adriaanm said (edited on Jan 10, 2013 9:57:12 PM UTC):
Jason said:

I was recently thinking how useful such a facility would be for extension methods: if the implicit went from Wrapped => (@foo Wrapper) and (@foo A) !<:< Any, we might avoid the "implicit Any/AnyRef disaster" @paulp brought up on -internals recently. But perhaps a more mundane solution is wiser...

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scabug commented Jun 9, 2013

@retronym said:
scala/scala#2625

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