Better support for collections outside Scala's std lib #444
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Java collections module introduced on 0.8.0 solved some problems:
java.util.Optional
) similar to support forscala.Option
It has however a few drawbacks:
TransformerOrUpcast
type to avoid issues with automatic vs semiautomatic derivation (prevents having to pick between 2 imports, one for automatically derived internal types and one for only semiautomatically derived)To handle it, the best solution would be to:
This would be a breaking change, so it should not be merged as a part of 0.8.x but it can become a part of future 1.0.0-RC line.
TODO: