DMD compiler choking? [Woohoo!]

[Hasan Aljudy]

James Dunne wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
> 
>> Regan Heath wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 06:10:30 +0000 (UTC), Jeremy Gibson <jtgibson 
>>> telus net Jeremy_member at pathlink.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Found the problem, and it was completely irrelevant to everything -- 
>>>> I had all
>>>> of the environment variables set up correctly right from the very 
>>>> beginning.
>>>>
>>>> The problem?  The object.d file in my project folder was overriding 
>>>> object.d in
>>>> the Phobos directory.  I renamed it to "gameobject.d" and everything 
>>>> works
>>>> peachy-keen now.
>>>>
>>>> (I noticed this because after I uncommented some code in object.d, I 
>>>> started
>>>> getting some errors in that file while I tried to compile the file 
>>>> test.d (which
>>>> I posted) in the same folder.  test.d does not import object.d at 
>>>> all, so
>>>> something had to be automatically importing it.  That's when it 
>>>> clicked.)
>>>>
>>>> This kind of name clash should probably be documented... =)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ahh, of course. Yeah, at least one other person has had this exact 
>>> same problem.
>>>
>>> At the very least it should be documented. The compiler could error 
>>> on compiling object.d, and/or refuse to create an object.o and/or 
>>> refuse to link/see any object.o which is not in the main directory.
>>
>>
>>
>> For what it's worth, I've run into this with Ares before.  DMD 
>> requires certain class definitions to be in object.d.  If it needs 
>> them and they aren't there, the compiler crashes.  But this should be 
>> reported, as the correct behavior would be to terminate with a helpful 
>> message.
>>
>>
>> Sean
> 
> 
> DMD's phobos should rename the object module class to something 
> inconspicuous like '_d_object' or something to avoid naming conflicts 
> with new programmers. :) (I just thought naming conflicts with new 
> programmers was kinda funny)
> 

I think it should just go into std package, making it std.object
This way it'll be very hard to make the above mentioned mistake without 
knowing what's going on.