What is a "context bound" in Scala?

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Published on 2010-06-05T22:01:45Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 22:22 UTC
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One of the new features of Scala 2.8 are context bounds. What is a context bound and where is it useful?

Of course I searched first (and found for example this) but I couldn't find any really clear and detailed information.

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