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           Summary: Can't create template class in module of same name
           Product: D
           Version: 2.012
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: bugzilla digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: jlquinn us.ibm.com


I'm not sure this is a bug or a language limitation, but it feels like a bug...

I have 2 modules:

a.d:
class a(T) {}

b.d:
import a;
class b {
  a!(int) x;
}

When I try to compile this, I get the following error:

~/dmd/bin/dmd -c a.d b.d
b.d(4): template instance a is not a template declaration, it is a import
b.d(4): Error: a!(int) is used as a type
b.d(4): variable b.b.x voids have no value

Why can't I do this?


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           Summary: Can't create template class in module of same name
           Product: D
           Version: 2.012
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: bugzilla digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: jlquinn us.ibm.com


 I'm not sure this is a bug or a language limitation, but it feels like a 
 bug...

 I have 2 modules:

 a.d:
 class a(T) {}

 b.d:
 import a;
 class b {
  a!(int) x;
 }

 When I try to compile this, I get the following error:

 ~/dmd/bin/dmd -c a.d b.d
 b.d(4): template instance a is not a template declaration, it is a import
 b.d(4): Error: a!(int) is used as a type
 b.d(4): variable b.b.x voids have no value

 Why can't I do this?


I don't think it's a "bug" but just a sort of unintuitive bit of symbol 
lookup.

In b.d, when you import a, it creates an entry in b's symbol table that maps 
from 'a' to 'module a'.  It also creates entries for all the symbols inside 
'module a', except for anything that conflicts.  So when you refer to 'a' in 
'module b', it refers to 'module a' and not 'class a'.

This is only a problem if the class (or really any symbol) name is the same 
as the *top-level name* of a module.  So if you instead had "mylib.a" as the 
name of the module, accessing 'class a' would not be a problem.  Of course, 
then accessing a symbol named "mylib" would.
Apr 24 2008
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I don't know whether to call this a bug or a language design issue, but I know
the workaround: specify the full name

Use
    a.a
instead of
    a


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 I don't know whether to call this a bug or a language design issue, but I know
 the workaround: specify the full name
 
 Use
     a.a
 instead of
     a
 


I think this can also be avoided by having the module in a package.  Then DMD
seems not to get confused.  I've not totally understood the specifics, it seems
modules and other symbols conflict in ways that package names don't.

So I think if you put a.d into an 'a' directory, make it's module statement be
"module a.a;" then do 

import a.a;

then you won't get the conflict.  Can anyone confirm this?  Don't have time at
the moment...


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 I don't know whether to call this a bug or a language design issue, but I 
 know
 the workaround: specify the full name

 Use
     a.a
 instead of
     a


 I think this can also be avoided by having the module in a package.  Then 
 DMD
 seems not to get confused.  I've not totally understood the specifics, it 
 seems
 modules and other symbols conflict in ways that package names don't.

 So I think if you put a.d into an 'a' directory, make it's module 
 statement be
 "module a.a;" then do

 import a.a;

 then you won't get the conflict.  Can anyone confirm this?  Don't have 
 time at
 the moment...


That wouldn't work either, since the top-level name is also a.  It's that 
modules and packages have a higher precedence than the symbols within them.
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 I don't know whether to call this a bug or a language design issue, but I know
 the workaround: specify the full name
 
 Use
     a.a
 instead of
     a
 


 
 I think this can also be avoided by having the module in a package.  Then DMD
 seems not to get confused.  I've not totally understood the specifics, it seems
 modules and other symbols conflict in ways that package names don't.
 
 So I think if you put a.d into an 'a' directory, make it's module statement be
 "module a.a;" then do 
 
 import a.a;
 
 then you won't get the conflict.  Can anyone confirm this?  Don't have time at
 the moment...
 


Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

That wouldn't work either, since the top-level name is also a.  It's that 


modules and packages have a higher precedence than the symbols within them. 

Ah, ok.  So I guess when I've gotten rid of such problems in the past by
putting the offending module in a package, it worked because I named the
package something that didn't conflict.

But this still does point out the issue with namespace pollution that arises
when using top-level, no-package modules.  Seems like that should be a general

classes in a package.


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Jerry Quinn <jlquinn optonline.net> changed:

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Any thoughts?  This bug is almost 4 years old and still present.

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PST ---
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not. Given that it would work if a.a weren't a
template, that would tend to indicate that it's a bug, but I don't know. The
problem probably is tied into the fact that a.a doesn't really exist until it's
instantiated.

Regardless, this is one of a long list of bugs which has been sitting around
for a long time without being looked at. The increased community involvement
with dmd has helped substantially in getting bugs fixed, but there are still
plenty of them like this sitting around. There is talk of putting greater focus
on older bugs (e.g. addressing the 10 oldest bugs in bugzill each release)
which may finally ameliorate the problem though.

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01:35:54 PST ---
The error you get is expected.

The statement:

    import a;

introduces the name 'a' into the current scope, where 'a' is a module name.
Names in the current scope are always searched before names in imported scopes.
Hence, the 'a' module name is found before 'a' the template.

a.a works because module 'a' is found, and then 'a' is looked up in the scope
of module 'a'.

This is how it is designed to work.

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