Why Oracle Enforce Name Uniquness ???!!!

Dang !

why Oracle does not allow a table to have same name as another object type ???!!!

SQL> create or replace package woohoo is procedure p_woohoo; end ;   2 /

Package created

SQL> create table woohoo as select * from scott.emp;

ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object

<10gR2> Received on Fri Nov 03 2006 - 10:47:32 CST