Why would one disable variance checking via @uV? [duplicate]

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When is @uncheckedVariance needed in Scala, and why is it used in GenericTraversableTemplate? (3 answers)

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I just stumbled over the following definition of method to defined by TraversableLike (2.10.0):

override def to[Col[_]](implicit cbf: CanBuildFrom[Nothing, A, Col[A @uV]]): Col[A @uV] = {
  val b = cbf()
  b.sizeHint(this)
  b ++= thisCollection
  b.result
}

According to this answer, the @uV disabled variance checking. That sounds dangerous. Why would I want to do that?

Answer 1

I guess the answer would be very similar to the one for this question: When is @uncheckedVariance needed in Scala, and why is it used in GenericTraversableTemplate?

Since builders (the implicit parameter cbf) exist for immutable (possibly covariant) and mutable (invariant) collections, the annotation is probably used here to make the to method work for both types of collections.