Module name clashes with exported type in Julia

Question

I happen to make a silly mistake - to create a type which has the name of the module it is in. Suppose that I want to export that type X from my package X:

module X

export X
export .X
export X.X

type X end

end

First would give me:

ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: invalid redefinition of constant X

Second:

ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: syntax: invalid identifier name "."

Third:

ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: syntax: extra token "." after end of expression

is there a valid syntax to solve my export problem?

P.S. I know that I could just change name for module/type.

Answer 1

As Tom Breloff said, there is the well-followed practice for naming packages that implement a new type. If your package exports a type that supports very fast operations on very small strings, and that type is named FastString, the recommended package name is FastStrings.jl.

Julia package names include the .jl suffix .. so should yours. For projects that pull multiple packages together under one umbrella, the project name may forgo the trailing .jl; the packages it brings together should end with .jl.

Some guidelines for naming packages are gathered here