Here is code that compiles fine without linter and fails when linter is enabled:

object Foo {
  implicit class HasIr(s: String) {
    def ir: Int = 1234
  }

  val bar = "$bar".ir
}

When adding scalacOptions += "-Xlint", the compilation fails as follows:

[error] /home/hhrutz/Documents/temp/interp_bug/src/main/scala/foo/Foo.scala:8: recursive value bar needs type
[error]   val bar = "$bar".ir
[error]             ^
[error] one error found
[error] (compile:compileIncremental) Compilation failed

Obviously the linter doesn't get to warn me about possible missing string interpolation (the dollar is intended in my case and not an interpolator), but then gets stuck assuming that $bar is interpolated bar.