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The basic idea is that if you have a namespace:
namespace MyCoolNamespace { void f() { ... } ... }
then you can bring the declarations from that namespace into scope with:
using MyCoolNamespace;
f();
The `using` construct is allowed in any scope where declarations are allowed. As an additional feature, the construct allows and then ignores the keyword `namespace` if it occurs right after `using`:
using namespace MyCoolNamespace;
Note that unlike in C++, `using` a namespace inside another namespace doesn't implicitly make the symbols available to clients of that namespace:
namespace hidden { void secret() {...} ... }
namespace api { using hidden; ... }
api.secret(); // ERROR: `secret()` isn't a member of `api`
The implementation of this feature was relatively simple, although it does leave out more advanced features that might be desirable in the future:
* No support for `using MCN = MyCoolNamespace` sorts of tricks to define a short name
* No support for `using` anything that isn't a namespace (e.g., to make the members of a type available without qualification)
* No support for cases where multiple visible modules have a namespace of the same name (or dealing with overloaded namespaces in general)
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