On Nov 27, 2009, at 06:42 , Martijn van Steenbergen wrote:
Sebastian Fischer wrote:Does anyone know why types and values are in separate namespaces but classes and types are not?Good question. I don't know the answer, but it is interesting to note that the report explicitly mentions this decision (but provides no reason):"An identifier must not be used as the name of a type constructor and a class in the same scope."
My guess is to make it easier to catch the error of using a class name as a type.
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