Remove unnecessary unsafe casts in IArray and fix erroneous cast #8196
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There were 61 unnecessary usages of
asInstanceOf
inIArray.scala
. Many of them were completely unneeded, and the rest could be avoided via simple typing tricks, without adding any overhead.I think unsafe casts should be avoided as much as possible. This is not just a theoretical issue: while making the changes, I discovered a bug in the implementation of
IArray#exists
(see #8195 (comment) for more info).I used a private inline implicit conversion for convenience in the
IArray
object. I tried to use an instance ofConversion
instead, but that did not work because of #8194.