Fixes #2589: type redeclarations cause spurious warnings #2591
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
This addresses the problem by refusing to re-bind the explicit type for a name once one type was already present. This means it changes the logic from "last type declaration wins" to "first type declaration wins". The error about redeclaring the type is still being reported but the type does not change, which changes the errors given, producing less surprising results.
Test plan: added a new test case to
unit/semanal
. Without the change, there's spurious errors about names not conforming to the type defined last. With the change, only the "Name already defined" errors remain.