what is the difference between a “trait” and a “template trait”?

Question

Looking at the scaladoc for Traversable and TraversableLike, I\'m having a hard time figuring out what the difference between them is (except that one extends the other). The o

Answer 1

The [...]Like classes are implementation classes for the actual collection classes. In a sense they act like template implementations from which most - if not all - behavior is inherited by the actual collection classes.

For a very detailed and approachable overview read The Architecture of Scala Collections.