How to override an implicit value?

Question

Suppose I have the code:

class A(implicit s:String = "foo"){println(s)}

object X {
   implicit val s1 = "hello"
}
object Y {
   import X._
   // do something with X
   implicit val s2 = "hi"
   val a = new A
}

I get the error:

<console>:14: error: ambiguous implicit values:
 both value s2 in object Y of type => String
 and value s1 in object X of type => String
 match expected type String
           val a = new A

Is there any way I can tell Scala to use the value s2 in Y? (if I rename s2 to s1, it works as expected but that is not what I want).

Another solution is to not do import X._, again something I'm trying to avoid.

Answer 1

Another thing you can do is to import everything but s1: import X.{s1 => _, _}.