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authorBrian McKenna <brian@simpleenergy.com>2014-09-07 12:33:52 -0600
committerBrian McKenna <brian@brianmckenna.org>2015-08-11 17:13:34 +1000
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SI-6806 Add an @implicitAmbiguous annotation
Example usage: trait =!=[C, D] implicit def neq[E, F] : E =!= F = null @annotation.implicitAmbiguous("Could not prove ${J} =!= ${J}") implicit def neqAmbig1[G, H, J] : J =!= J = null implicit def neqAmbig2[I] : I =!= I = null implicitly[Int =!= Int] Which gives the following error: implicit-ambiguous.scala:9: error: Could not prove Int =!= Int implicitly[Int =!= Int] ^ Better than what was previously given: implicit-ambiguous.scala:9: error: ambiguous implicit values: both method neqAmbig1 in object Test of type [G, H, J]=> Main.$anon.Test.=!=[J,J] and method neqAmbig2 in object Test of type [I]=> Main.$anon.Test.=!=[I,I] match expected type Main.$anon.Test.=!=[Int,Int] implicitly[Int =!= Int] ^
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+package scala.annotation
+
+import scala.annotation.meta._
+
+/**
+ * To customize the error message that's emitted when an implicit of type
+ * C[T1,..., TN] is found more than once, annotate the class C
+ * with @implicitAmbiguous. Assuming C has type parameters X1,..., XN, the
+ * error message will be the result of replacing all occurrences of ${Xi} in
+ * the string msg with the string representation of the corresponding type
+ * argument Ti. *
+ *
+ * If more than one @implicitAmbiguous annotation is collected, the compiler is
+ * free to pick any of them to display.
+ *
+ * Nice errors can direct users to fix imports or even tell them why code
+ * intentionally doesn't compile.
+ *
+ * {{{
+ * trait =!=[C, D]
+ *
+ * implicit def neq[E, F] : E =!= F = null
+ *
+ * @annotation.implicitAmbiguous("Could not prove ${J} =!= ${J}")
+ * implicit def neqAmbig1[G, H, J] : J =!= J = null
+ * implicit def neqAmbig2[I] : I =!= I = null
+ *
+ * implicitly[Int =!= Int]
+ * }}}
+ *
+ * @author Brian McKenna
+ * @since 2.12.0
+ */
+final class implicitAmbiguous(msg: String) extends scala.annotation.StaticAnnotation {}