Named and implicit arguments

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Hanns Holger Rutz

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Sep 17, 2014, 2:59:08 PM9/17/14
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Coming across this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22552985/scala-passing-one-implicit-parameter-implicitly-and-the-other-explicitly-is-it

Ex.

def foo(implicit a: Int, b: String) = println(a, b)

It appeared to me that using named arguments could be a way to
unambiguously explicate only selected arguments. That is, this doesn't
work right now:

implicit val x = "abc"

def foo(33) // [1]

or

def foo(a = 33) // [2]

But I think that [2] would indeed make sense? I have many cases in my
libraries where indeed you can get up to five or more implicit
arguments, and when inference doesn't kick in with one of them, it's
always a PITA having to specify all the rest that are actually found
by Scalac.

What do you think?

Best, .h.h.
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Hanns Holger Rutz

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Sep 17, 2014, 3:00:31 PM9/17/14
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On 09/17/2014 09:59 PM, Hanns Holger Rutz wrote:
> implicit val x = "abc"
>
> def foo(33) // [1]
>
> or
>
> def foo(a = 33) // [2]

of course these are calls, without the `def`!
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