Rewrote implicits section of the tour #746

[mghildiy]

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[mghildiy]

I have few questions about this change.
I removed older implicit files(implicit-parameters.md,implicit-conversion.md),introduced new file(implicit.md) with previous-page pointing to self-types and next-page pointing to polymorphic-methods.
But build failed.
Error traces suggests that I need to do similar changes for all language specific directories(ko,es,pl etc).
If yes, then how would I get language translations for implicit.md?

[SethTisue]

I've answered your question at https://contributors.scala-lang.org/t/multi-language-files/1519

[SethTisue]

it looks like #1018 will be merged first and you'll need to rebase.

[SethTisue]

#1018 has been merged.

[som-snytt]

I was going to fold changes to http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/FAQ/finding-implicits.html on top of this PR, but I'm not sure this is a good foundation. I doubt whether the examples are explanatory.

I also think it's useful to have two pages for params and conversions.

For params, we need an easy typeclass example that is meaningful.

I see the current page links to that faq page; so my task is to inline it. However, I'll do that from head.

[mghildiy]

To clarify things more, now that #1018 changes are in master, and as part of this PR I removed implicit-parameters.md, so now I would manually need to take new content from implicit-parameters.md and put them in implicit.md(implicit-parmeters.md is still deleted).

[mghildiy]

Can anyone please confirm my last comment?

[SethTisue]

Apologies for the delay. The situation here seems confused and confusing, so probably everyone is (like me) hesitating to comment because it's hard to even understand what's going on.

In particular, I've lost track of what the benefit is supposed to be of merging the two sections into one...? Is there even a consensus on making that change, or was it just an idea Travis had? It doesn't seem like a clear improvement to me. I'm not strongly against, either... I just don't get it. Maybe the benefit just needs to be explained to me.

I'm not sure what other improvements might remain to be incorporated.

[mghildiy]

I think it would be better if we close this PR.Instead, I would prefer to first really understand what latest changes in implicit-parameters.md bring to table,and then if merging of implicit files into one still makes sense, we can go further.

[SethTisue]

@mghildiy okay — thanks for working on this, sorry about the overlap in work that ended up happening