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| -rw-r--r-- | src/library/scala/annotation/implicitAmbiguous.scala | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/library/scala/annotation/implicitAmbiguous.scala b/src/library/scala/annotation/implicitAmbiguous.scala index 46eab9ae8f..f190865623 100644 --- a/src/library/scala/annotation/implicitAmbiguous.scala +++ b/src/library/scala/annotation/implicitAmbiguous.scala @@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ 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 ${Xi} in - * the string msg with the string representation of the corresponding type - * argument Ti. * + * To customize the error message that's emitted when an implicit search finds + * multiple ambiguous values, annotate at least one of the implicit values + * `@implicitAmbiguous`. Assuming the implicit value is a method with type + * parameters `X1,..., XN`, the error message will be the result of replacing + * all occurrences of `${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 + * 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 |