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Prioritize ambiguous errors in extension method search #13588

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@odersky odersky commented Sep 22, 2021

When an extension method search fails with an ambiguity, report the ambiguous message instead
of a message pertaining to the (arbitrary) surviving alternative.

Fixes #13558

When an extension method search fails with an ambiguity, report the ambiguous message instead
of a message pertaining to the (arbitrary) surviving alternative.
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| value id is not a member of testcode.A.
| An extension method was tried, but could not be fully constructed:
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| testcode.ExtensionA.id(a) failed with
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It would be nice if we issued

     id(a)     failed with

instead, but it turns out to be devilishly complicated to do so. So I decided it's not worth going down that rabbit hole since a fix would likely make code that's already super complicated even less understandable.

@anatoliykmetyuk anatoliykmetyuk merged commit 0bece40 into scala:master Sep 29, 2021
@anatoliykmetyuk anatoliykmetyuk deleted the fix-13558 branch September 29, 2021 10:58
@Kordyjan Kordyjan added this to the 3.1.1 milestone Aug 2, 2023
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Compiler error caused by import of unrelated extension
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