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Expand Up @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Given clauses are further explained in the [next section](./inferable-params.htm

## Anonymous Representatives

The name of a representative can be left out. So the representative definitions
The name of a representative can be left out. So the representatives
of the last section can also be expressed like this:
```scala
repr of Ord[Int] { ... }
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```
An alias representative can have type and context parameters just like any other representative, but it can only implement a single type.

## Representative Creation
## Creating Representatives

A representative without type parameters or given clause is created on-demand, the first time it is accessed. It is not required to ensure safe publication, which means that different threads might create different representatives for the same `repr` clause. If a `repr` clause has type parameters or a given clause, a fresh representative is created for each reference.

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