Cannot import module that has name of a package

Hennrich Blöbaum hennrich.bloebaum at gmx.de
Thu Mar 22 10:55:31 PDT 2007


J Duncan schrieb:
> 
> 
> Hennrich Blöbaum wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Look at this:
>>
>> <main.d>
>> import test.foo;
>> import test.foo.bar;
>>
>> <test/foo.d>
>> module test.foo;
>>
>> <test/foo/bar.d>
>> module test.foo.bar;
>>
>>
>> This gives error:
>> test/foo.d: module test.foo module and package have the same name
>>
>>
>> Is there any reason why this is blocked?
>>
>>
>> Hennrich
> 
> Because its illegal, you could have FQNs that are unable to resolve....
> 
> I get around this by using uppercase (or camel case) for module names.
> 
> module test.Foo;
> 
>  - and -
> 
> module test.foo.Bar;
> 
> 
> this is a violation of walters suggested style guide, and it will not 
> compile on operating systems that force a single case. But I happen to 
> love the practice, as now I am able to reuse package names for module 
> names.

Yes, I have seen this, but as style guide says, windows is sadly ignored.



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