The article complains about Scala lacking Open Classes: Open classes let you add features at runtime. [snip] It's the kind of thing that would be driv

The article complains about Scala lacking Open Classes: Open classes let you add features at runtime. [snip] It's the kind of thing that would be driving programmers nuts by the end of a 20-year maintenance cycle. But it's a godsend when the developers of the original library weren't prescient enough (or didn't have the time) to develop everything you need. This is what implicit conversions are for: http://www.scala-lang.org/node/130 http://www.scala-lang.org/node/130