Scala replacement for Arrays.binarySearch?

Question

Is there a replacement in Scala for Java\'s int Arrays.binarySearch(Object[] array, object)?

The problem is that Scala\'s Arrays are not covariant, so I

Answer 1

It not that hard to just write it in scala

  object BSearch {
    def interative[T](array: Array[T], value: T)(implicit arithmetic: Numeric[T]): Int = {
      var left: Int = 0;
      var right: Int = array.length - 1;
      while (right > left) {
        val mid = left + (right - left) / 2
        val comp = arithmetic.compare(array(mid), value)
        if (comp == 0)
          return mid; //negative if test < value
        else if (comp > 0) //list(mid) > value
          right = mid - 1;
        else if (comp < 0) //list(mid) < value
          left = mid + 1;
      }
      -1;
    }


BSearch.interative(array, value)