Why does Scala implicit resolution fail for overloaded method with type parameter?

Question

The first example successfully finds the implicit conversion to the method foo(String), however as soon as I add a type parameter (see fails) the c

Answer 1

Both cases seem to fall under this case of the specification:

Views are applied in three situations:

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In a selection e.m(args) with e of type T, if the selector m denotes some member(s) of T, but none of these members is applicable to the arguments args. In this case a view v is searched which is applicable to e and whose result contains a method m which is applicable to args. The search proceeds as in the case of implicit parameters, where the implicit scope is the one of T. If such a view is found, the selection e.m is converted to v(e).m(args).

So it should work. I was actually surprised to see it, because I've never run into the working case before and assumed that there is no implicit search if T has any members named m. I've taken a quick look at http://issues.scala-lang.org/, but couldn't find a relevant issue.