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| -rw-r--r-- | src/library/scala/annotation/implicitNotFound.scala | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/library/scala/annotation/implicitNotFound.scala b/src/library/scala/annotation/implicitNotFound.scala index bbde90cebb..eeedcb014e 100644 --- a/src/library/scala/annotation/implicitNotFound.scala +++ b/src/library/scala/annotation/implicitNotFound.scala @@ -9,8 +9,11 @@ package scala.annotation /** - * An annotation that specifies the error message that is emitted when the compiler - * cannot find an implicit value of the annotated type. + * To customize the error message that's emitted when an implicit of type + * C[T1,..., TN] cannot be found, annotate the class C with @implicitNotFound. + * 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. * * * @author Adriaan Moors * @since 2.8.1 |