Are Options and named default arguments like oil and water in a Scala API?

Question

I\'m working on a Scala API (for Twilio, by the way) where operations have a pretty large amount of parameters and many of these have sensible default values. To reduce typi

Answer 1

I was also surprised by this. Why not generalize to:

implicit def any2Option[T](x: T): Option[T] = Some(x)

Any reason why that couldn't just be part of Predef?