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laureny
4533 days ago
Value classes make tagged types obsolete:
http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/value-classes.html
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noelwelsh
4533 days ago
They still have uses for disambiguating implicits. There are at least four monoids for the Int: 0/+, 1/*, MinValue/Max, and MaxValue/Min. It is useful to tag them so one can specify which monoid one wants.
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