Names and scope in D

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Saturday, 14 November 2020 at 17:22:13 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 November 2020 at 17:06:49 UTC, Dibyendu 
> Majumdar wrote:
>> I couldn't find the rules that D uses to decide whether a name 
>> conflicts or not. If I missed something please can someone 
>> point me to it?
>
> It doesn't appear to be spelled out anywhere in the language 
> spec, but the rule is that two symbols in the same scope with 
> the same name conflict unless they form an overload set. The 
> rules for overload sets are laid out in the sections of the 
> spec that deal with functions, templates, and aliases (iirc).

Thank you.

If I do this, compiler accepts it:

//int foo;
struct foo {
     int a;
}

void bar() {
     foo foo;
     foo.a = 5;
}

So if I read your reply correctly the variable 'foo' in bar() 
doesn't conflict with the struct 'foo' because it is in a 
different scope?