Returning original collection type in generic method

Question

Say we want to make a function like minBy that returns all elements of equal minimalism in a collection:

def multiMinBy[A, B: Ordering](xs: Trav         


        

Answer 1

How about using CanBuildFrom?

import scala.collection.immutable._
import scala.collection.generic._

def multiMinBy[A, B, From[X] <: Traversable[X], To](xs: From[A])(f: A => B)
  (implicit ord: Ordering[B], bf: CanBuildFrom[From[_], A, To])  = {
  val minVal = f(xs minBy f)
  val b = bf()
  b ++= (xs filter (f(_) == minVal))
  b.result
} 



scala> multiMinBy(List("zza","zzza","zzb","zzzb"))(_.last)
res1: List[java.lang.String] = List(zza, zzza)