typelevel/cats

Clean out warnings from Dotty

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#3,751 opened on Jan 30, 2021

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Description

There's a bunch of warnings that Dotty emits, e.g. type tests that cannot be checked at runtime.

I suspect many of them can be resolved in a way that are compatible with Scala 2.

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Research direction
Investigate Dotty warnings related to type tests and ensure compatibility with Scala 2 by using available annotations or code changes.
Tech stack
scala
Domain
backend
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Chore
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
Scala
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75