Re: parametric types and variance

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 04:23:40PM +0200, Christoph Drießen wrote:
> can anyone explain to me why the following code compiles? As I
> understand it, Aa acts as the lower bound in the implementation of
> classify in class AaClassifier and so I wonder why I'm able to pass in
> a String.

Because you're not passing a String, you're passing an AnyRef (which
happens to be a String.)

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