unit2anyref.scala:2: error: type mismatch; found : Unit required: AnyRef Note that implicit conversions are not applicable because they are ambiguous: both method orderingToOrdered in object Predef of type [T](x: T)(implicit ord: Ordering[T])Ordered[T] and method any2stringadd in object Predef of type (x: Any)scala.runtime.StringAdd are possible conversion functions from Unit to AnyRef val x: AnyRef = () // this should not succeed. ^ one error found