Scala traits and implicit conversion confusion
- by pr1001
The following lines work when I enter them by hand on the Scala REPL (2.7.7):
trait myTrait {
override def toString = "something"
}
implicit def myTraitToString(input: myTrait): String = input.toString
object myObject extends myTrait
val s: String = myObject
However, if I try to compile file with it I get the following error:
[error] myTrait.scala:37: expected start of definition
[error] implicit def myTraitToString(input: myTrait): String = input.toString
[error] ^
Why?
Thanks!
