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ambiguous name when glob importing an enum into a block when variant has same name as enum

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Description

related: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/102855

I tried this code:

enum En {
    En
}

mod m {
    use super::En;
    const _ = {
        use En::*;
        1
    };
}

I expected to see this happen: exact path shadows glob import

Instead, this happened: compile error:

Compiling playground v0.0.1 (/playground)
error[[E0659]](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/error_codes/E0659.html): `En` is ambiguous
 --> src/lib.rs:8:13
  |
8 |         use En::*;
  |             ^^ ambiguous name
  |
  = note: ambiguous because of a conflict between a name from a glob import and an outer scope during import or macro resolution
note: `En` could refer to the variant imported here
 --> src/lib.rs:8:13
  |
8 |         use En::*;
  |             ^^^^^
  = help: consider adding an explicit import of `En` to disambiguate
note: `En` could also refer to the enum imported here
 --> src/lib.rs:6:9
  |
6 |     use super::En;
  |         ^^^^^^^^^
  = help: use `self::En` to refer to this enum unambiguously

error: missing type for `const` item
 --> src/lib.rs:7:12
  |
7 |     const _ = {
  |            ^ help: provide a type for the constant: `: i32`

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0659`.
error: could not compile `playground` (lib) due to 2 previous errors
Meta

rustc --version --verbose:

rustc 1.83.0-nightly (2bd1e894e 2024-09-26)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 2bd1e894efde3b6be857ad345914a3b1cea51def
commit-date: 2024-09-26
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
release: 1.83.0-nightly
LLVM version: 19.1.0

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Research direction

Start by compiling the minimal example in src/lib.rs with the reported nightly rustc version and compare the ambiguity diagnostic with the expected exact-path shadowing behavior. No compiler source file or test is named; done means the example no longer reports the enum path as ambiguous while preserving the variant import behavior.

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rust
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Issue type
Bug
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Estimated time
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