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Native types should have crate-relative identifiers #149

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Native type identifiers are global, not crate-relative. This doesn't seem easy to typecheck because of the diamond import problem:

Suppose:

  • Crate A defines a native type foo;
  • Crate B imports A and exports A.foo;
  • Crate C imports A and exports A.foo;
  • Crate D imports B and C and unifies B.foo and C.foo.

B.foo and C.foo won't be considered compatible.

Instead of having one global value set, we could subject them to crate-relative name resolution, just like any other type. In other words, we would have e.g. "TY_native of crate_id * native_id".

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