How to declare traits as taking implicit “constructor parameters”?

Question

I\'m designing a class hierarchy, which consists of a base class along with several traits. The base class provides default implementations of several methods, and the trai

Answer 1

As it looks like this isn't possible, I went for the option of declaring the implicit val on the base class' constructor. As pointed out in the question this isn't ideal, but it satisfies the compiler and, pragmatically, isn't too much of a burden in my particular case.

If anyone has a better solution though, I'd be happy to hear and accept it.