Fix #1857: Allow lower bounds to influence implicit search #3921
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The previous implementation claimed to conform to the spec:
But in fact we do not need to exclude lower bounds from
namedPartsWith
to do that -TypeRefs are already lifted to classes, which implements SLS 7.2. Including lower bounds
does affect wildcard types (i1857.scala) and wildcard parameters in implicits (implicit-lower-bound.scala), but the spec does not exclude either of these.