template instance does not match template declaration

[Paul Backus]

On Friday, 25 February 2022 at 23:34:59 UTC, kdevel wrote:
>
> What about this:
>
> ```d
> module model; // model.d
> import std.file : read; // this line provokes the error
>
> private int read (string filename) // now it's private
> {
>    import std.file;
>    auto data = std.file.read (filename);
>    return 0;
> }
> ```
>
> Now dmd reports:
> ```
> main.d(7): Error: undefined identifier `read`
> ```
>
> Is the lookup and the processing done in different parts/stages 
> of the compiler?

I'm not familiar enough with the details of this part of the 
compiler to say. But it sure looks like there's something screwy 
going on here.