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0 pointsdwohnitmok5y ago0 comments

> implicits could be used to model typeclasses from haskell and method-syntax-extension

To be fair those are powered by two different mechanisms (implicit arguments and implicit conversions) that just so happened to share the same keyword name but are semantically quite different (and have been broken up in Scala 3).

But your overall point is well-taken.

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valenterry5y ago

> To be fair those are powered by two different mechanisms

You can call it like that, but in the end it is the same language feature: describing things in a scope as implicit and having the compiler resolve them by certain rules.

What happened in Scala 3 is just that they were named different to make clear when things get defined and when they get used - one without the other is useless though, hence to me it is the same concept or language feature.

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