There are a bunch of practical applications for this sort of pattern, but the most generally useful ones are for framework-less Dependency Injection and for decoupling implementation-site details IMO.
Happy to see this idea gaining popularity recently.
gavinray•6mo ago
Recently, Kotlin has added this in the name of "Context Parameters", and Scala 3 has them as "given"/"using" traits.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/04/update-on-context-...
https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/contextual/usin...
There are a bunch of practical applications for this sort of pattern, but the most generally useful ones are for framework-less Dependency Injection and for decoupling implementation-site details IMO.
Happy to see this idea gaining popularity recently.