<:< and <%<

<%< will resolve to ANY suitable implicit conversion available in scope<:< will only resolve to a function representing a "conversion" from some instance to the specified superclass

On 22 April 2011 15:35, Kent Tong <kent@cpttm.org.mo> wrote:

Hi,

In the scala.Predef package there are two classes <:< and <%< and both
seem to denote a unary function covariant on the input and
contravariant on the output. But what's the difference between them?

Thanks!

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