[Issue 7651] New: Cannot use object.d file in user projects

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           Summary: Cannot use object.d file in user projects
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody at puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> 2012-03-05 10:03:20 PST ---
File structures:
foo\object.d:
module foo.object;

foo\main.d:
module foo.main;
import foo.object;
void main() {}

$ dmd -I.. main.d object.d 
object.d: Error: module foo.object from file object.d conflicts with
another module object from file object.d

The issue is that druntime\import\object.di has this module declaration:
module object;

IOW, 'object.d' does not belong to a package and DMD simply refuses to compile
two modules together when one has a package name and the other has not.

Now I've never seen people use 'import object;' in D code before, so why not
move object.d into the core package instead of making it a packageless module?
I know it's "special", but "object" is a very common name and it will probably
conflict with other people's projects if they try to use a 'object.d' module of
some custom package in their code.

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