The term “heterogeneous collection” captures a few different ideas, most popularly a set or list where the elements may have different types. This post is not about those, but about a map (or dictionary, or key-value mapping, or whatever else you’d like to call it) where the values may be of different types, but the program does not lose that type information.
I’ve made a preliminary library from these code snippets at https://github.com/kennknowles/scala-heterogeneous-map. Let’s jump right in and do our imports…
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