Something is wrong with the Writer documentation?
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Description
See here.
import cats.data.Writer
import scala.math.sqrt
val writer1: Writer[String, Double] = Writer.value(5.0).tell("Initial value ")
This fails with
diverging implicit expansion for type cats.kernel.Order[A]
starting with method catsKernelOrderForFunction0 in object Eq
val writer1: Writer[String, Double] = Writer.value(5.0).tell("Initial value ")
Still fails if I add the following, from the beginning of the docs page.
import cats.instances._
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Research direction
Open the linked Writer documentation example and run the shown Scala snippet, including the suggested cats.instances._ import. Check why the example fails with the reported cats.kernel.Order implicit-expansion error; done means the documented example compiles and remains consistent with the surrounding Writer documentation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- scala
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100