Annoying module name / typename conflict

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, April 02, 2012 16:01:38 H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 06:46:07PM -0400, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 00:31:32 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> > > On 4/3/12, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> > > > However, this name conflict makes this scheme rather painful to use.
> > > > :-(
> > > 
> > > For now you can stutter a little bit and use this:
> > > import S : S;
> > 
> > The simplest is just to rename the module so that it's all lowercase. I
> > believe that most people give modules all lowercase names. It's what
> > Walter
> > recommends, but I know that others (e.g. Don) don't like that
> > recommendation. It does solve the problem in this case though.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Actually, it doesn't because I have some structs that have lowercase
> names.

Which I'd argue is bad practice, but that's up to you. The typical thing to do 
is to use PascalCase with type names and camelCase with everything else.

- Jonathan M Davis