strangely categorical construct I needed

  private def diagonalize[T](f: Int => T): PartialFunction[(Int, Int), T] =
      { case (i, j) if i == j => f(i) }

btw, list of scala magic words, half-forgotten

stackoverflow.com/questions/1483212/list-of-scalas-magic-functions 

apricots this morning

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