Unclear error message when class has same name as package

[Jeremy Manson]

Hi folks,

One of our users said that he spent a day trying to figure out where how
this error happened (lots of autogenerated code made it all rather opaque),
so I'm reporting it.

$ cat C.java
import p.D.E;

public class C {
}
$ cat p/D.java
package p;
public class D {
}
$ cat p/D/E.java
package p.D;

public class E {
}
$ javac C.java
C.java:1: error: cannot find symbol
import p.D.E;
          ^
  symbol:   class E
  location: class D
1 error


The reporter suggested that the error "cannot find symbol" would be better
as something like "package D clashes with class of same name".

Jeremy
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