[Issue 5005] New: Remove restrictions on module/package with same name.

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           Summary: Remove restrictions on module/package with same name.
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody at puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: ah08010-d at yahoo.com


--- Comment #0 from Austin Hastings <ah08010-d at yahoo.com> 2010-10-06 13:44:33 PDT ---
I've got a library, let's call it myLib. And I've declared it in the libs
namespace, so that packages are of the form:

libs.myLib.package

I'd like to separate the details of the interface from the details of the
implementation by creating a module, myLib.d, that imports the whole library
interface:


module myProgram;
import libs.myLib;


But I don't want a single D source file that eleventy-seven hundred lines of
source, so I'd like my implementations to live in:

// \file: source/libs/myLib/part1.d
module libs.myLib.part1;

// \file: source/libs/myLib/part2.d
module libs.myLib.part2;


Sadly, DMD2 currently prohibits this - module ... is in multiple packages ...

Given that this seems like a pretty straightforward approach to maintaining
clean code, I was surprised this isn't already supported.

Anyway, please make it possible for a module to share a name with a package.

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