Error: variable foo conflicts with struct foo

[Stijn]

On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 17:59:55 UTC, Colin wrote:
>
> 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.

The C# compiler has no trouble understanding code like that, so I 
was wondering if it is a design decision for the language, or 
simply something not yet supported by the compiler. I couldn't 
find any documentation on it either. Perhaps someone can point me 
to it?

I did manage to work around the issue by fully qualifying the 
type:

     private __gshared kernel.idt.IDT_register IDT_register;

Also, I'm well aware that I'm not following the standard 
practices regarding naming, but I'm just toying with -betterC so 
I'm not really concerned about it.