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Tim Mohan
Tim Mohan

Reputation: 25

How does Int get converted to BigDecimal?

I am not able to understand how scala converts Int to BigDecimal in scala. 

val a : BigDecimal = 1

The above statement should have ideally thrown a compilation error , however it compiles fine. Could anyone please explain how does this happen in scala?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 157

Answers (1)

Chaitanya
Chaitanya

Reputation: 3638

The answer to this question lies in the BigDecimal object which has an implicit method that converts Int to BigDecimal.

From the source code of scala

object BigDecimal extends scala.AnyRef with scala.Serializable {
// all other methods
  implicit def int2bigDecimal(i : scala.Int) : scala.math.BigDecimal = { /* compiled code */ }

}

Please let me know if this answers your question.

Upvotes: 4

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