no creator proxies for exported classes without a companion

[bishabosha]

Compiler version

3.0.0-RC1-bin-SNAPSHOT at e10cfa8

Minimized example

object Outer {

  object Wrap {
    export Outer.Bar
  }

  class Bar

  val wrapBar = Wrap.Bar()
}

Output

9 | val wrapBar = Wrap.Bar()
  |               ^^^^^^^^
  |               value Bar is not a member of object Outer.Wrap

Expectation

no compilation error. If I add a companion to Bar then there is no error.

This is against my expectation because usually classes have creator proxies synthesized if no companion is explicitly declared

[odersky]

Does it also happen if you do not do an export of an outer class? That one looks positively weird to me, and it might well mess with initialization order/

[bishabosha]

Does it also happen if you do not do an export of an outer class?

This has the same behaviour, (works if you add a companion to Inner.Bar)

object Outer {

  object Inner {
    class Bar
  }

  export Inner.Bar

  val bar = Bar() // error

}

[odersky]

This arises since constructor proxies are only created for classes, and exports give type aliases, not classes. Maybe a better solution would be to find a way to allow constructor proxies also for type aliases.