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doc(implicit resolution): mention that for old-style implicit
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title: "Changes in Implicit Resolution"
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This page describes changes to the implicit resolution of old-style `implicit`s in Dotty.
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Implicit resolution uses a new algorithm which caches implicit results
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more aggressively for performance. There are also some changes that
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affect implicits on the language level.
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due to _shadowing_ (where an implicit is hidden by a nested definition)
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no longer applies.
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3. Package prefixes no longer contribute to the implicit scope of a type.
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3. Package prefixes no longer contribute to the implicit search scope of a type.
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Example:
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```scala
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package p
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Both `a` and `b` are visible as implicits at the point of the definition
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of `type C`. However, a reference to `p.o.C` outside of package `p` will
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have only `b` in its implicit scope but not `a`.
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have only `b` in its implicit search scope but not `a`.
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4. The treatment of ambiguity errors has changed. If an ambiguity is encountered
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in some recursive step of an implicit search, the ambiguity is propagated to the caller.
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5. The treatment of divergence errors has also changed. A divergent implicit is
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treated as a normal failure, after which alternatives are still tried. This also makes
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sense: Encountering a divergent implicit means that we assume that no finite
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solution can be found on the given path, but another path can still be tried. By contrast
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solution can be found on the corresponding path, but another path can still be tried. By contrast
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most (but not all) divergence errors in Scala 2 would terminate the implicit
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search as a whole.
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