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Avoid generating given definitions that loop #19282

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@odersky odersky commented Dec 17, 2023

Fixes a long-standing footgun of implicit resolution: givens that loop back to themselves.

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I appreciate the attention to quality-of-life issues when you might prefer to pursue an interesting area of research today. Hopefully these efforts do not go unnoticed at large.

`given ... with` or `given ... = new { ... }` kinds of definitions now follow
the old rules. This allows recursive `given...with` definitions as they are
found in protoQuill.

We still have the old check in a later phase against directly recursive methods.
Of the three loops in the original i15474 we now detect #2 and #3 with new new
restrictions. #1 slips through since it is a loop involving a `given...with` instance
of `Conversion`, but is caught later with the recursive method check.

Previously tests #1 and #3 were detected with the recursive methods check and #2 slipped
through altogether.

The new rules are enough for defining simple givens with `=` without fear of looping.
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Very nice, and well received!

@odersky odersky merged commit 938d405 into scala:main Dec 23, 2023
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@odersky odersky deleted the change-looping-givens branch December 23, 2023 17:41
@Kordyjan Kordyjan added the release-notes Should be mentioned in the release notes label Jan 18, 2024
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