Error: variable foo conflicts with struct foo

[Colin]

On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 17:45:35 UTC, Stijn wrote:
> Why is it not allowed for a variable name to match a type name? 
> The following example fails with "Error: variable foo conflicts 
> with struct foo"
>
>     struct foo {}
>     foo foo;

How can the compiler know which symbol is which symbol if 
everything has the same name?

Standard practice is to capitalise type names and camelCase 
variable names.