Using a struct within a struct produces errors

[garrison]

I agree this behavior is confusing; I also think it would be more intuitive to alias the current module into itself. I can’t explain exactly why, it’s just less surprising for some reason.

With that said, obviously there is no changing this now, so it is what it is.

@Ookma-Kyi

I mean that functions inside the module are fine, but structs inside the module still need to be aliased

Structs are just maps with an extra __struct__ key set to the module name. Functions are imported into the scope, but structs are not. You can only alias the module name.

Note however that defining a nested module aliases that module within the parent, so you can do this:

defmodule A do
  defmodule B do
    defstruct [:foo, :bar]
  end
  def foo(%B{}), do: true
end

Even though the actual name of B is A.B. Which only makes it more confusing tbh.