How to append or prepend an element to a tuple in Scala

Question

I have a tuple and want to add an element without loosing type safety. This is what I want to achieve:

val tuple = (\"\", 1, 1f) // (String, Int, Float)

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Answer 1

Shapeless now does it. Adding

import shapeless.syntax.std.tuple._

before your code just compiles.