Value classes introduce unwanted public methods

Question

Looking at some scala-docs of my libraries, it appeared to me that there is some unwanted noise from value classes. For example:

implicit class RichInt(val i: In         


        

Answer 1

A possibility is to use a name that is shadowed:

implicit class IntOps(val toInt: Int) extends AnyVal {
  def squared = toInt * toInt
}

Or

implicit class IntOps(val toInt: Int) extends AnyVal { ops =>
  import ops.{toInt => value}
  def squared = value * value
}

This would still end up in the scala-docs, but at least calling 4.toInt is neither confusing, no actually triggering IntOps.