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DarkDimius opened this issue Jun 4, 2017 · 2 comments
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Figure out why overwriting protection doesn't work. #2681

DarkDimius opened this issue Jun 4, 2017 · 2 comments
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I recall dotty having protection from overwriting a user-defined class with a synthetic class with the same name by name-mangling sythetic one:
#313 (comment)

#2673 (comment) reports that it doesn't work in some cases.
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smarter commented Jun 4, 2017

The check should at least compare the names after normalizing the case.

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odersky commented Jan 22, 2018

The check should at least compare the names after normalizing the case.

That looks like a good plan.

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