Top "Path-dependent-type" questions

What is meant by Scala's path-dependent types?

I've heard that Scala has path-dependent types. It's something to do with inner-classes but what does this actually mean and …

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Any reason why scala does not explicitly support dependent types?

There are path dependent types and I think it is possible to express almost all the features of such languages …

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