Adding two Set[Any]

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Published on 2011-01-06T21:39:52Z Indexed on 2011/01/06 21:53 UTC
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Adding two Set[Int] works:

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scala> Set(1,2,3) ++ Set(4,5,6)          
res0: scala.collection.immutable.Set[Int] = Set(4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3)

But adding two Set[Any] doesn't:

scala> Set[Any](1,2,3) ++ Set[Any](4,5,6)
<console>:6: error: ambiguous reference to overloaded definition,
both method ++ in trait Addable of type (xs: scala.collection.TraversableOnce[Any])scala.collection.immutable.Set[Any]
and  method ++ in trait TraversableLike of type [B >: Any,That](that: scala.collection.TraversableOnce[B])(implicit bf: scala.collection.generic.CanBuildFrom[scala.collection.immutable.Set[Any],B,That])That
match argument types (scala.collection.immutable.Set[Any])
   Set[Any](1,2,3) ++ Set[Any](4,5,6)
           ^

Any suggestion to work around this error?

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