Added a @bridge'd $scope back to scala package ...

Added a @bridge'd $scope back to scala package object for binary compat.
No review.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/library/scala/package.scala b/src/library/scala/package.scala
index 5c9f9b7dd8..264fd18406 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/package.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/package.scala
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 **                          |/                                          **
 \*                                                                      */
 
-
+import annotation.bridge
 
 /**
  * Core Scala types. They are always available without an explicit import.
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ package object scala {
   @deprecated("Use Thread.currentThread instead", "2.9.0")
   def currentThread = java.lang.Thread.currentThread()
 
+  // Moved back into Predef to avoid unnecessary indirection by
+  // way of the scala package object within the standard library,
+  // but bridged for compatibility.
+  @bridge def $scope = scala.xml.TopScope
+
   // Numeric types which were moved into scala.math.*
 
   type BigDecimal = scala.math.BigDecimal