Question

I want to understand why Rich Decorators over basic types say Int which has RichInt as type which adds a lot of utility methods ( I guess ) are part of scala.runtime and not say probably scala.util…? Are there any reasons for the same or just they are there because they are there?

Answer 1

I’d guess it’s because they’re important enough to need to be imported automatically, so there’s no need to expose them in a package like scala.util that contains optional imports that you need to do manually. runtime isn’t a package that users are really supposed to need to look at.