I would rather call it a very bad compiler error message.

So, open an issue at https://github.com/elm-lang/error-message-catalog?
​

2016-08-01 11:54 GMT+02:00 Gábor Varga <gva...@gmail.com>:

> I worked it out.
> I would not call it a bug, I would rather call it a very bad compiler
> error message.
>
> Basically what happens is the following. You have this directory structure:
> /src
> +-- Component
> |   +-- Ports.elm
> |   +-- ...
> +-- ModuleA.elm
> +-- ModuleB.elm
>
> ModuleA.elm says "import Ports"
> ModuleB.elm says "import Component.Ports"
>
> Component/Ports.elm can declare "module Ports" or "module Component.Ports",
> either one is correct but the compiler will complain that the file's name
> and the source code does not match.
> A good message, in my opinion, would accept whatever is declared in P
> orts.elm (if it is valid), and would point to eiher ModuleA or ModuleB
> stating that one of them is trying to import a module which does not exist.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 11:11:05 PM UTC+2, Duane Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gabor, did you ever get this worked out? I'm curious if it's an elm
>> bug.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Gábor Varga <gva...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello guys,
>>>
>>> I have a pretty standard elm project: all my source files are in src
>>> and under src there are several sub directories for each feature.
>>> One of those is called Login and it has a Model/Update/View.elm files
>>> in it as well as 2 port modules: InputPorts and OutputPorts. Now I
>>> cannot name those port modules in a way the compiler would not complain:
>>>
>>> $ elm-make src/main.elm --output build/elm.js --yes --warn
>>> The module name is messed up for .\./src\Login\OutputPorts.elm
>>>
>>>     According to the file's name it should be Login.OutputPorts
>>>     According to the source code it should be OutputPorts
>>>
>>> Which is it?
>>>
>>> *## after renaming it in the "source code" *
>>> $ elm-make src/main.elm --output build/elm.js --yes --warn
>>> The module name is messed up for .\./src/Login\OutputPorts.elm
>>>
>>>     According to the file's name it should be OutputPorts
>>>     According to the source code it should be Login.OutputPorts
>>>
>>> Which is it?
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas what I am missing?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Gabor
>>>
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