Using the same identifier for a Type and a Class: What is the semantic effect of that syntax?

[Moi:] "Notice how the identifier Customer is used with 2 different purposes. IIRC, neither C++ nor Java allows such confusing usage."

[Mike:] I don't know about Java but C++ certainly allow something like that:

class foo {
};

class bar {
    foo foo;
};

I was right, but only about Java. In another forum somebody wrote the following:

"This has nothing unusual in C#.

"In Java you would write:

Customer getCustomer()
void setCustomer(Customer customer) 

"C# provides a convienient way to declare both getX() and setX() in one single member, usually called X.