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@tgodzik @gabro Are you OK with merging this now, and you'll look into the tooling separately? Or should we hold?

That's very much of a feature in Scala 3. Unnecessary outer pointers are a source of memory leaks. Scala 3 does a much better job at eliminating outer pointers that...

I think it should be ```scala cls.owner.ownersIterator.takeWhile(!_.isStaticOwner).exists(_.isTerm) ```

I am not against this specific change, but I note that currently experimental is far too restrictive. The philosophy seems to be: if you use experimental you are a bad...

Yes, I think now that we have found a robust way to declare that a unit of code is experimental, we don't need to be obtuse when it comes to...

Another question is the virality of experimental. In general experimental is viral, clients need to be experimental themselves. But there could be options (such as capture checking, or initialization checking)...

@anatoliykmetyuk According to Maintenance.md you are still the maintainer of CB. Can you take a look and/or find a successor who can take this on from now? Everyone: If there's...

About naming "is/Self" vs "forms/Something else": Note that the `is` syntax will only work for type classes that are defined in terms of `Self`. So the argument that existing type...