it prevents genericThing to provide an instance of Thing[F] if an implicit one is already
available elsewhere EXCEPT if it is provided by a method called anyThing. In this case, it
lets genericThing provide a Thing[F] too, effectively taking precedence over the instances
provided by anyThing.
Allows
LowPriority
to ignore some implicits.Added to an implicit def like
it prevents
genericThing
to provide an instance ofThing[F]
if an implicit one is already available elsewhere EXCEPT if it is provided by a method calledanyThing
. In this case, it letsgenericThing
provide aThing[F]
too, effectively taking precedence over the instances provided byanyThing
.