As eloquently elaborated and cleverly named by Travis Brown, macros defined in structural types are useful: http://meta.plasm.us/posts/2013/07/12/vampire-methods-for-structural-types/. However, since such macros are on the intersection of a number of language features, as usual, there are bugs. Before this commit, subtyping checks between structural types didn't distinguish regular methods structural types (zombies, as per Travis' classification) and macros (vampires, again as per the same bestiary). There's one detail though. Since implicit conversions are looked up using structural types, that look like: "? { def foo: ? }", where question marks stand for WildcardType, we need to allow such structural types to match situations when the target member is a macro. Unlike the original subtyping rule, this one is not a soundness hole, because: 1) the way the compiler uses such types is guaranteed to be sound, because they aren't assigned to any term and are discarded right away after implicit search, 2) users can't actually write such types, so they can't exploit the situations that lead to unsoundness.