pub or internal types can be declared inside local scopes

[Chriscbr]

I tried this:

for i in 0..1 {
  pub class MyClass {}
  new MyClass();
}

This happened:

The code compiles

I expected this:

I expected an type checking error to be raised. There's no way for classes defined within inner scopes (within if statements, for loops, functions, or other classes) to be possibly consumed by other files, and it's possible to statically detect this based on where the class is defined in the code, so we should indicate to the user that their code is invalid.

The same logic should also apply for structs, enums, and interfaces as well.

Is there a workaround?

No response

Anything else?

No response

Wing Version

0.82.7

Node.js Version

20.11.1

Platform(s)

No response

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[monadabot]

Congrats! 🚀 This was released in Wing 0.83.0.