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package scala.annotation

/**
  * To customize the error message that's emitted when an implicit search finds
  * multiple ambiguous values, annotate at least one of the implicit values
  * `@implicitAmbiguous`. Assuming the implicit value is a method with type
  * parameters `X1,..., XN`, the error message will be the result of replacing
  * all occurrences of `${Xi}` in the string `msg` with the string representation
  * of the corresponding type argument `Ti`.
  *
  * If more than one `@implicitAmbiguous` annotation is collected, the compiler is
  * free to pick any of them to display.
  *
  * Nice errors can direct users to fix imports or even tell them why code
  * intentionally doesn't compile.
  *
  * {{{
  * trait =!=[C, D]
  *
  * implicit def neq[E, F] : E =!= F = null
  *
  * @annotation.implicitAmbiguous("Could not prove ${J} =!= ${J}")
  * implicit def neqAmbig1[G, H, J] : J =!= J = null
  * implicit def neqAmbig2[I] : I =!= I = null
  *
  * implicitly[Int =!= Int]
  * }}}
  *
  * @author Brian McKenna
  * @since 2.12.0
  */
final class implicitAmbiguous(msg: String) extends scala.annotation.StaticAnnotation