Can I declare an enum class that has the same name as one of its members in Kotlin. Example:

enum class Potato(val a : Int) {
     Potato(3);
}

This is possible in Java but it seems like it's not allowed in Kotlin?

Looks like a bug

edit: It was missing

val

, I found that it is unrelated to the question

Report it and use the default naming convention of enums :

POTATO

I wish I could change it to match convention but I have to keep an API already in place and I was just trying to translate this enum to Kotlin

The error message states that it's not allowed, though?

Use of enum entry names as types is not allowed

Why it's not allowed I can't say for sure.

It only seems to be a problem with the constructor parameter.

enum class Potato{
     Potato;
}

this is allowed

The message is wrong

where do I file the bug @Paul Woitaschek?