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Re:Scala: Understanding implicits by bad_user on Monday July 23, 2018 @02:11AM (#17590865)
Well grown libraries are using the `@implicitNotFound` annotation to generate better library-controlled compiler errors, with advice given for what to do. It has its limitations of course, but proved very useful in many situations.

A search tree is cool, but it's not going to explain how to get a value when it has restrictions (dependencies).

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Re:Scala: Understanding implicits by harpocrates on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:19PM (#17594178)
`@implicitNotFound` still only gives you a top-level failure message. Also, my comment was aimed more at developers of libraries with complex implicit derivations not the consumers of such libraries.
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