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What's wrong with implicits?

• Ygg2 13y ago
  Magic.
  • frowaway001 13y ago
    ... done right? I mean the most hated implicits are implicit conversions and they basically exist for Java compatibility.¹ So on the one side you have terrible stuff hard-coded into the language (Java, C#) which you will never get rid of and on the other side you have a solution as a library which you just can de-import if you don't want to suffer from e. g. magic anything-to-String conversions any longer (I certainly won't). That's a huge plus in my book. ¹ The two other main use cases, type classes and extension methods, seem to be hugely popular and I haven't seen any criticism concerning them.