controller/model name conflicts produce a blank page?

[eluser]Johnny Freeman[/eluser]
I've spent a billion years trying to figure out why when I create a controller called 'users' it produces a blank page (even the source is blank). After sifting through many many threads I decided to change the name of my model name called 'users'. It turns out that you cannot have a controller named 'users' if you are loading a model called 'users'. A novice mistake I guess.

What I want to know is, WHY, in the name of all that is good in this world, is there no error produced??? And a blank page instead? I almost stabbed my monitor with my Brave Heart sword!!!