Enclosures

Information about one of the currently considered implicit candidates. Candidates are used in plural form, because implicit parameters may themselves have implicit parameters, hence implicit searches can recursively trigger other implicit searches.

Can be useful to get information about an application with an implicit parameter that is materialized during current macro expansion. If we're in an implicit macro being expanded, it's included in this list.

Unlike openImplicits, this is a val, which means that it gets initialized when the context is created and always stays the same regardless of whatever happens during macro expansion.

Contexts that represent macros in-flight, including the current one. Very much like a stack trace, but for macros only. Can be useful for interoperating with other macros and for imposing compiler-friendly limits on macro expansion.

Is also priceless for emitting sane error messages for macros that are called by other macros on synthetic (i.e. position-less) trees. In that dire case navigate the enclosingMacros stack, and it will most likely contain at least one macro with a position-ful macro application. See enclosingPosition for a default implementation of this logic.

Unlike openMacros, this is a val, which means that it gets initialized when the context is created and always stays the same regardless of whatever happens during macro expansion.

Tries to guess a position for the enclosing application. But that is simple, right? Just dereference pos of macroApplication? Not really. If we're in a synthetic macro expansion (no positions), we must do our best to infer the position of something that triggerd this expansion. Surprisingly, quite often we can do this by navigation the enclosingMacros stack.

The tree that undergoes macro expansion. Can be useful to get an offset or a range position of the entire tree being processed.

Test two objects for inequality.

Equivalent to x.hashCode except for boxed numeric types and null. For numerics, it returns a hash value which is consistent with value equality: if two value type instances compare as true, then ## will produce the same hash value for each of them. For null returns a hashcode where null.hashCode throws a NullPointerException.

Test two objects for equality. The expression x == that is equivalent to if (x eq null) that eq null else x.equals(that).

Cast the receiver object to be of type T0.

Note that the success of a cast at runtime is modulo Scala's erasure semantics. Therefore the expression 1.asInstanceOf[String] will throw a ClassCastException at runtime, while the expression List(1).asInstanceOf[List[String]] will not. In the latter example, because the type argument is erased as part of compilation it is not possible to check whether the contents of the list are of the requested type.

Create a copy of the receiver object.

The default implementation of the clone method is platform dependent.

Tests whether the argument (arg0) is a reference to the receiver object (this).

The eq method implements an equivalence relation on non-null instances of AnyRef, and has three additional properties:

• It is consistent: for any non-null instances x and y of type AnyRef, multiple invocations of x.eq(y) consistently returns true or consistently returns false.
• For any non-null instance x of type AnyRef, x.eq(null) and null.eq(x) returns false.
• null.eq(null) returns true.

When overriding the equals or hashCode methods, it is important to ensure that their behavior is consistent with reference equality. Therefore, if two objects are references to each other (o1 eq o2), they should be equal to each other (o1 == o2) and they should hash to the same value (o1.hashCode == o2.hashCode).

The equality method for reference types. Default implementation delegates to eq.

See also equals in scala.Any.

Called by the garbage collector on the receiver object when there are no more references to the object.

The details of when and if the finalize method is invoked, as well as the interaction between finalize and non-local returns and exceptions, are all platform dependent.

Returns string formatted according to given format string. Format strings are as for String.format (@see java.lang.String.format).

A representation that corresponds to the dynamic class of the receiver object.

The nature of the representation is platform dependent.

The hashCode method for reference types. See hashCode in scala.Any.

Test whether the dynamic type of the receiver object is T0.

Note that the result of the test is modulo Scala's erasure semantics. Therefore the expression 1.isInstanceOf[String] will return false, while the expression List(1).isInstanceOf[List[String]] will return true. In the latter example, because the type argument is erased as part of compilation it is not possible to check whether the contents of the list are of the specified type.

Equivalent to !(this eq that).

Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

Wakes up all threads that are waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

Creates a String representation of this object. The default representation is platform dependent. On the java platform it is the concatenation of the class name, "@", and the object's hashcode in hexadecimal.