The following code snippet worked perfectly, then after some code changes in different files, I've started getting stack overflows resulting from recursive invocation of the implicit conversion. Has this ever happened to anyone, and if so what's the fix. implicit def comparable2ordered[A <: Comparable[_]](x: A): Ordered[A] = new Ordered[A] with Proxy { val self = x def compare(y: A): Int = { self.compareTo(y) } }