On Saturday, 28 November 2020 at 15:16:11 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 November 2020 at 17:06:49 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
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>> 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?
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> module scopes;
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> int scopes;
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> This is accepted by the compiler which surprised me.
> Is this intentional?

The reason these do not conflict is that they are not in the same scope. `int scopes` is inside the module (FQN: scopes.scopes), whereas `module scopes` *is* the module (FQN: scopes).

On Saturday, 28 November 2020 at 19:36:25 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 November 2020 at 15:16:11 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
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>> module scopes;
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>> int scopes;
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>> This is accepted by the compiler which surprised me.
>> Is this intentional?
>
> The reason these do not conflict is that they are not in the same scope. `int scopes` is inside the module (FQN: scopes.scopes), whereas `module scopes` *is* the module (FQN: scopes).

Yes okay, that makes sense.