Scala: Method overloading over generic types

Question

In C# I can overload methods on generic type as shown in the example below:

// http://ideone.com/QVooD
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

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Answer 1

The Manifest won't really help either becuase those will have the same type after erasure.

What will help having different numbers of arguments (or different types after erasure). I find having different numbers of implicit arguments can transparently solve this problem, and by using scala.Predef.DummyImplicit, you don't even have to import an implicit anywhere.

class Test{
  def foo(ints : List[Int])
  def foo(doubles : List[Double])(implicit i1:DummyImplicit)
  def foo(strings : List[String])(implicit i1:DummyImplicit, i2:DummyImplicit)
}