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Incoming links: Implicit conversion
Define an implicit conversion in the scope where client code uses the added methods:Then, for example,The Scala compiler can convert the receiver to
import scala.language.implicitConversions
implicit def stringToDist(s: String): DistFromString =
new DistFromString(s)val support = "Scala".getDom
val p = "Scala".getProb('a')DistFromString when the requested member is absent from String. The conversion must be imported or otherwise visible, and constructing the finite probability distribution retains the nonempty-string precondition of part (b).Place an implicit conversion in the companion object and import it into the client scope, so it is available for both an integer argument and an integer receiver:
import scala.language.implicitConversions
class Rational(n0: BigInt, d0: BigInt) {
def this(n: Int, d: Int) = this(BigInt(n), BigInt(d))
require(d0 != 0)
private val g = n0.abs.gcd(d0.abs)
val num: BigInt = (if (d0 < 0) -n0 else n0) / g
val den: BigInt = d0.abs / g
def *(r: Rational): Rational =
new Rational(num*r.num, den*r.den)
override def toString: String =
if (den == 1) num.toString else num.toString + "/" + den.toString
}
object Rational {
implicit def fromInt(n: Int): Rational = new Rational(n,1)
}
import Rational._
val r1 = new Rational(3,7)
val r2 = new Rational(-11,-5)
println(r1*r2)
println(r1*3)
println(7*r1)Normalization gives . The output lines are
33/35, 9/7, 3. For r1*3, the argument is converted; for 7*r1, conversion supplies the receiver's rational multiplication method. BigInt keeps the exact rational arithmetic independent of fixed-width product overflow.