Typedefs and static methods do not work together

[burg]

It seems that a type definition will not introduce an implicit module for static methods defined in the thing being typedef'd. Consider the example below: one would expect Shaper::new() to resolve correctly.

Testcase:

mod foo {
    pub struct FooShaper {
        dummy: int
    }

    pub impl FooShaper {
        static pub fn new() -> FooShaper {
            FooShaper { dummy: 1337 }
        }
    }
}

fn main() {
    type Shaper/& = foo::FooShaper;

    let sh = Shaper::new();
    assert 1 + sh.dummy == 1338;
}

Compiler errors:

[burg@host-7-150 Desktop]# rustc test.rs
test.rs:16:13: 16:24 error: unresolved name
test.rs:16     let sh = Shaper::new();
                        ^~~~~~~~~~~
test.rs:16:13: 16:24 error: use of undeclared module `Shaper`
test.rs:16     let sh = Shaper::new();
                        ^~~~~~~~~~~
test.rs:16:13: 16:24 error: unresolved name: Shaper::new
test.rs:16     let sh = Shaper::new();
                        ^~~~~~~~~~~
error: aborting due to 3 previous errors

[brson]

After discussion, this is probably intended behavior, for now at least. A workaround for most use cases is to write pub use foo = bar instead of pub type foo = bar.