"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
>  
> ...
>  
>  If you happen to grab the element with the declarations, yeah, it's
>  easy.  Otherwise you get to deal with a lot of stack-tracking.

I'm just quoting, not agreeing! I've been through the argument so many
times that I can't even remember my original position yet. All I can say
is that I've experienced tremendous pain dealing with namespace scoping
and I don't remember any situation where I've benefited from it.

 Paul Prescod

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