PL/SQL BUG?

Can anyone explain the following.

The following (declared in a package specification), fails to compile

TYPE phenomenontype_rec IS RECORD
(phenomenontype phenomenontype.phenomenontype%TYPE,

 memberid       indexingphenomenontype.memberid%TYPE,
 name           phenomenontype.name%TYPE,
 valuetype      phenomenontype.valuetype%TYPE,
 input          indexingphenomenontype.input%TYPE,
 purpose        phenomenontype.purpose%TYPE,
 sequence       indexingphenomenontype.sequence%TYPE );

however. the following declared instead of the above compiles = successfully.

TYPE phenomenontype_rec IS RECORD
(phenomenontype INTEGER,

 memberid       indexingphenomenontype.memberid%TYPE,
 name           phenomenontype.name%TYPE,
 valuetype      phenomenontype.valuetype%TYPE,
 input          indexingphenomenontype.input%TYPE,
 purpose        phenomenontype.purpose%TYPE,
 sequence       indexingphenomenontype.sequence%TYPE );

This appears to me to be a bug in PL/SQL(Oracle 7.3.4) . Can someone = confirm this, or otherwise give me a good explanation of why this is not = a bug. Received on Tue Oct 26 1999 - 08:17:33 CDT