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In the paper “An Extended Comparative Study of Language Support for Generic Programming” by Garcia et al. an interesting comparison of programming languages features for generic programming is given:

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with the brief explanation of terminology:

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Can anyone test Scala support for generic programming inside this framework? I.e. add a column in the first table with explanations if possible.

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@Yannis your edit adds link to the obsolete version of the above mentioned paper (with different title, by the way) – Artem Pelenitsyn Nov 24 '12 at 15:06
Hey, that was easy to fix ;) Feel free to rollback edits to your own posts you don't feel comfortable with. – Yannis Rizos♦ Nov 24 '12 at 15:08
Reposted on Computer Science. Please don't do that. If you want to move your question to another site which you feel is more suitable, flag for moderator attention and request a migration. – Gilles Nov 25 '12 at 19:26
Sorry for that, I just don't know how to trigger the moderator attention etc. – Artem Pelenitsyn Nov 25 '12 at 19:43
Have a look at miles Sabins shapeless library and his motivation behind te lib. I think references some papers – AndreasScheinert Nov 26 '12 at 11:27

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As far as I can tell from the less than stellar description of these features in the paper, I don't think Scala lacks any of them.

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It would be helpfull if you provide some examples prooving this. – Artem Pelenitsyn Nov 24 '12 at 14:25
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Too much work. Which part do you have doubts about? – Kim Nov 24 '12 at 15:12
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Exact answer is given on p. 17 of “Type classes as Objects and Implicits” by Oliveira et al.

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The reference comes from Twitter after the link to CS.SE beta question trickled there. Thanks to Miles Sabin (@milessabin on Twitter) and Alexey Romanov. – Artem Pelenitsyn Nov 26 '12 at 6:31

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