There's no implicit conversion here
just a list, with a :: method, taking x as an argument

Each and every person reading this list is more than intelligent enough to
understand Scala - feel free to state if you think you're not though!

Seriously folks, we all know *much* more complicated stuff than this
but just take it for granted because of familiarity, imagine trying to
explain the following to a non-programmer:

you shouldn't use == to test for equality, you must use equals()
and that equals must be defined to accept an Object as the argument
and that it will fail if x in `x.equals(y)` is null
except for primitives, which can't be null
but which aren't actually objects, and therefore can't have any methods,
including equals()
so, actually, you do have to use == after all

and that's just to check if two things are the same...

On 9 August 2010 10:58, Ben Schulz <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 9 Aug., 11:47, Viktor Klang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Ben Schulz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 9 Aug., 11:02, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > any operator ending with a `:` is also right associative. So
> > > > x :: someList
> > > > is equivalent to someList.::(x)
> >
> > > I think you just proved Fabrizio's point (and this is a one-line
> > > example). ;)
> >
> > *laughs*
> > If you can't remember that suffix-colon means right-associative, you
> can't
> > be expected to remember that * has higher precedence than +, which
> probably
> > means you already have a difficult enough life. ;)
> I'm talking about the order of evaluation. And frankly I'm baffled as
> to why someList would be subject to implicit conversion before x,
> baffled.
>
> With kind regards
> Ben
>
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