Unclear error message when class has same name as package

[Vicente-Arturo Romero-Zaldivar]

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the report I have created a bug entry with id JDK-8022873 to 
track this issue,

Vicente

On 10/08/13 23:10, Jeremy Manson wrote:
> 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