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14 changes: 7 additions & 7 deletions docs/docs/reference/other-new-features/export.md
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Expand Up @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class Copier:
private val scanUnit = new Scanner

export scanUnit.scan
export printUnit.{status => _, _}
export printUnit.{status => _, *}

def status: List[String] = printUnit.status ++ scanUnit.status
```
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ of one of the following forms:
- An _omitting selector_ `x => _` prevents `x` from being aliased by a subsequent
wildcard selector.
- A _given selector_ `given x` has an optional type bound `x`. It creates aliases for all eligible given instances that conform to either `x`, or `Any` if `x` is omitted, except for members that are named by a previous simple, renaming, or omitting selector.
- A _wildcard selector_ `_` creates aliases for all eligible members of `path` except for given instances,
- A _wildcard selector_ `*` creates aliases for all eligible members of `path` except for given instances,
synthetic members generated by the compiler and those members that are named by a previous simple, renaming, or omitting selector.

A member is _eligible_ if all of the following holds:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -144,15 +144,15 @@ Consider the following example:
```scala
class B { val c: Int }
object a { val b = new B }
export a._
export b._
export a.*
export b.*
```

Is the `export b._` clause legal? If yes, what does it export? Is it equivalent to `export a.b._`? What about if we swap the last two clauses?
Is the `export b.*` clause legal? If yes, what does it export? Is it equivalent to `export a.b.*`? What about if we swap the last two clauses?

```
export b._
export a._
export b.*
export a.*
```

To avoid tricky questions like these, we fix the elaboration order of exports as follows.
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