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Revisiting Implicits

I'll talk about the history of Scala's implicits: how they evolved, some mistakes we could have avoided in hindsight, as well as aspects I believe we got right. I then present the revised implicit design of Scala 3 and explain how it addresses the problems mentioned earlier.

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Scala Scala 3

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Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky

Lead designer of Scala
Inventor of the Scala language, a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a founder of Lightbend. ACM fellow, co-designer of Java generics, and original…
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