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Add a notice for simplification about Collection.someMethod
There are some entries for methods defined in object like Collection.concat and Collection.empty.
I think it might be confusing for new-comers since there is no Collection
object actually.
In reality, such methods are defined not inCollection
but in the specific collection objects, e.g. List.concat
or Set.empty
.
I first imagined that each signatures have a note like
object COLLECTION {
def empty[A]: COLLECTION[A]
}
// COLLECTION could be actual collection type, like List or Set.
but this is not ideal since the signatures requires translations. So I would suggest to add
- A dedicated page regarding this simplification somewhre.
- Links to the page in the functions
For methods in trait, such simplification is fine, I think !!
I found using Collection object
as the best way to express" the companion object of the trait Collection
, where Collection
means any class that behaves like that. It's complicated to keep the balance between being realistic and keeping things easy.
Anyway I agree with you that some kind of explanation need to be added.