Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Oct 27 21:10:11 EST 2003

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> The best alternative I've seen that addresses nested scope and the
> global declaration. Is to borrow :: from C++:

-1000! I hate it whenever an otherwise sensible language
borrows this ugly piece of syntax.

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