Compiler error with static vars/functions

[Don Clugston]

On 09/02/12 23:03, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, February 09, 2012 14:45:43 bearophile wrote:
>> Jonathan M Davis:
>>> Normally, it's considered good practice to give modules names which are
>>> all lowercase (particularly since some OSes aren't case-sensitive for
>>> file operations).

That's just a Walter thing, and it's bollocks. There's no need to use 
all lower case.

>>
>> That's just a fragile work-around for a module system design problem that I
>> didn't like from the first day I've seen D. I'll take a look in Bugzilla if
>> there is already something on this.
>
> What design problem? The only design problem I see is the fact that some OSes
> were badly designed to be case insensitive when dealing with files, and that's
> not a D issue.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

You can argue this either way. There are not many use cases for having 
two files differing only in case.