"Peter Alexander" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > I'm working on a fix to http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6180 > > Essentially the problem boils down to: > > - Module A has a private symbol named x > - Module B has a public symbol named x > - Module C imports A and B and tries to use x unqualified > > Should the fact that B.x is public and A.x is private disambiguate the > usage in module C to use B.x, or is that still an ambiguous unqualified > usage of variable x that requires manual qualification/disambiguation?
If something's private, it's supposed to be an "internal-only" sort of thing. Private. Outside its own module, it shouldn't even be visibile and it's existence shouldn't have any effect. So I'd say unqualfied use of x inside C should definitely be allowed and resolve to B.x.
