Github user marmbrus commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/448#issuecomment-42264403
I don't think it's very obvious :)
My guess would be that this.type is included in a scala specific signature
somewhere, and the scala compiler adds casts after all the calls when the
method is called on a refined type.
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