import scala.reflect.macros.whitebox.Context import language.experimental.macros trait Complex[T] class Foo(val foo: Foo) object Complex { def impl[T: c.WeakTypeTag](c: Context): c.Expr[Complex[T]] = { import c.universe._ val tpe = weakTypeOf[T] for (f <- tpe.decls.collect{case f: TermSymbol if f.isParamAccessor && !f.isMethod => f}) { val trecur = appliedType(typeOf[Complex[_]], List(f.info)) if (c.openImplicits.tail.exists(ic => ic.pt =:= trecur)) c.abort(c.enclosingPosition, "diverging implicit expansion. reported by a macro!") val recur = c.inferImplicitValue(trecur, silent = true) if (recur == EmptyTree) c.abort(c.enclosingPosition, s"couldn't synthesize $trecur") } c.Expr[Null](q"null") } implicit object ComplexString extends Complex[String] implicit def genComplex[T]: Complex[T] = macro impl[T] }