[jira] Commented: (BOO-314) Overeager member lookup in classes

    [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/BOO-314?page=comments#action_47233 ] 

steve donovan commented on BOO-314:
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Thanks, Doug.  This is the kind of thing which greatly helps normal use of Boo 
by making it as suprise-free as possible.

Self-qualification is definitely acceptable in case of ambiguity.

steve d.


> Overeager member lookup in classes
> ----------------------------------
>
>          Key: BOO-314
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/BOO-314
>      Project: Boo
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: Compiler
>     Versions: 0.5
>     Reporter: steve donovan
>  Attachments: boo-314a.patch
>
>
> The compiler can get confused if there is a member of a class which has the 
> same name as some symbol from an included namespace.  In the first case, it 
> is pointing out that 'Form.Size' can't be called, and is not looking up 
> further for the 'System.Drawing.Size' constructor.  In the second case, it 
> sees 'Form.DialogResult' and notes that this is a static method, rather than 
> 'System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult'.
> import System.Windows.Forms from System.Windows.Forms
> import System.Drawing from System.Windows.Forms
> class MyForm(Form):
>     def constructor():
>     // BCE0077: It is not possible to invoke an expression of type 
> 'System.Drawing.Size'.
>         Size = Size(200,200)
>         
>     static def go():
>         f = MyForm()
>         // BCE0058: Object required.
>         if f.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK:
>             print 'ok'
> The workaround is to fully qualify these names, but this is ugly and 
> inconsistent. We know C# understands this issue properly, so a solution must 
> be possible.

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