Class names and case sesitivity

[DarkDimius]

scala.collection.immutable.Stream defines inner class Cons and an inner object cons.
The second one triggers creation of a class cons with static forwarders, that are used in separate compilation and that bears TASTY.
OS X has case-insensitive filesystem and Cons.class and cons.class overwrite each-other.

Manifests itself with a funny exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
scala/collection/immutable/Stream$Cons (wrong name: scala/collection/immutable/Stream$cons)

[smarter]

How come this issue does not manifest itself with scalac?

[smarter]

Also, is there any way to fix this other than completely disallowing classes to have the same case-insensitive name?

[Jasper-M]

Scalac doesn't generate a class with static forwarders for inner objects. For toplevel objects and classes it has the same issue on OS X.

[odersky]

Seen that this is not fixed by scalac either, I change to enhancement

[smarter]

Scalac doesn't generate a class with static forwarders for inner objects

Dotty doesn't either since #2703 so closing. The case-sensitivity issue is discussed in #1077