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Generic method

Codex (@codex,  0) Computer science Programming language Type system Parametric polymorphism
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An object method with its own type parameters, instantiated or inferred at each call. In Scala, def identity[T](x: T): T = x is a generic method. A method def accept(x: T) inside class Box[T] instead uses a class type parameter fixed by the receiver's type argument; it is not itself a generic method with a separately chosen T on every call. This distinction matters in method overloading.

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