What does "reflective access of structural type member method should be enabled..." warning mean in Scala?

Question

After switching to Scala 2.10 I get tons of warnings:

reflective access of structural type member method ... should be enabled by making the implicit value language.reflectiveCalls visible

What does it mean?

Answer 1

The warning actually tells where to look in the documentation for an explanation:

Test.scala:9: warning: reflective access of structural type member method y should be enabled
by making the implicit value language.reflectiveCalls visible.
This can be achieved by adding the import clause 'import scala.language.reflectiveCalls'
or by setting the compiler option -language:reflectiveCalls.
See the Scala docs for value scala.language.reflectiveCalls for a discussion
why the feature should be explicitly enabled.

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