Bug or caveat? "Loading of Elixir.beam failed: badfile"

[Alexei Sholik]

Create a file.ex with the following contents:

defmodule Elixir do

end

Then compile it with `elixirc file.ex`. Start IEX shell in the same dir and try calling a function in Elixir. I guess it's a special case that `Elixir == :"Elixir"`, therefore the Elixir.Elixir.beam file in the current directory is ignored. The error message is not very pretty though.

iex(1)> Elixir.hi

=ERROR REPORT==== 31-Mar-2014::18:14:57 ===

Loading of /Users/alco/Documents/git/elixir/bin/../lib/elixir/ebin/Elixir.beam failed: badfile

=ERROR REPORT==== 31-Mar-2014::18:14:57 ===

beam/beam_load.c(1249): Error loading module 'Elixir':

  module name in object code is elixir

=ERROR REPORT==== 31-Mar-2014::18:14:57 ===

Loading of /Users/alco/Documents/git/elixir/bin/../lib/elixir/ebin/Elixir.beam failed: badfile

=ERROR REPORT==== 31-Mar-2014::18:14:57 ===

beam/beam_load.c(1249): Error loading module 'Elixir':

  module name in object code is elixir

** (UndefinedFunctionError) undefined function: Elixir.hi/0

    Elixir.hi()

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Best regards
Alexei Sholik

[José Valim]

Bug. We should not let you define a module named Elixir.

José Valim

www.plataformatec.com.br

Skype: jv.ptec

Founder and Lead Developer

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[Alexei Sholik]

Filed an issue https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/2145