Vala does not warn about reusage of identifier "type" in GObject constructor (#560) · Issues · GNOME / vala

Vala does not warn about reusage of identifier "type" in GObject constructor

Code to reproduce:

    class Foo : Object {
        construct {
            string type;
        }
    }

    void main () {}

Vala does not tell me not to use the variable "type". Instead g++ gives me the error

    /home/lukas/tmp/type.vala.c:61:9: error: ‘type’ redeclared as different kind of symbol
      gchar* type = NULL;
             ^

Which makes sense as "type" is first defined as "GType type" in the function signature:

    static GObject * foo_constructor (GType type, [...]

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