Scala pop quiz, what does this print?pic.twitter.com/DlyDsIlHGW
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Holy, does that compile? I thought implicit search was part of the issue
No, that was just a smoke grenade 
Incidentally, Scala forces you to explicitly cast a literal null to a (potentially) primitive value since around Scala 2.6. If T is not known to be a subtype of AnyRef, and you give it a Null-typed thing (viz, null), you have to explicitly cast it to T.
Just testing, lazy val a: Int = a gets you the result I was expecting at first (StackOverflowError)
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