You get typeclasses in Scala via an interaction between traits and implicits. See http://www.sidewayscoding.com/2011/01/introduction-to-type-classes-in-scala.h

You get typeclasses in Scala via an interaction between traits and implicits. See http://www.sidewayscoding.com/2011/01/introduction-to-type-classes-in-scala.html http://www.sidewayscoding.com/2011/01/introduction-to-type-c... for a super-quick overview and a link to a more comprehensive paper.