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How to make this Scala implicit conversion work?

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Fri, 2011-12-09, 08:52
Yang Zhang
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Posted this to SO a short while ago - anyone gurus here have an
answer? Thanks in advance.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8440122/how-to-make-this-scala-implic...

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Fri, 2011-12-09, 10:41
#1
Peter 2
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Re: How to make this Scala implicit conversion work?

Hi Yang,

what about

implicit def x2node2helper[A](x: XRelation[A]) = new Helper(x)

Peter
See also: Graph for Scala

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Fri, 2011-12-09, 12:11
#2
Yang Zhang
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Re: Re: How to make this Scala implicit conversion work?

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Sonnenschein wrote:
> Hi Yang,
>
> what about
>
> implicit def x2node2helper[A](x: XRelation[A]) = new Helper(x)
>
> Peter
> See also: Graph for Scala

I had a note near the bottom of my question explaining why this simple
solution isn't the one I'm seeking: it's to avoid having a
combinatorial explosion of implicit conversions to be defined.

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Fri, 2011-12-09, 12:21
#3
Peter 2
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Re: How to make this Scala implicit conversion work?

> combinatorial explosion of implicit conversions to be defined.

For more clarity, could you please show what you are not getting
implicitly work?

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