So this is a fairly direct port of this Java question to scala We have a bunch of traits that take generic parameters as follows: trait Ident { } trait Container[I <: Ident] { def foo(id: ...

I tried writing a function with a generic return type but it doesn't work unless I cast the return type. Please see the function getSomething() below I expected it to work without the casting. What...

Lets say I have an array like this*: val foo: Any = 1 : Int Option(foo.asInstanceOf[String]) which fails for obvious reason: // java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Integer cannot be cast to...