I agree about the shadowing. I find in some cases I need to refine a value to a more correct/cleaned/canonical form, but a separate method to establish an all-n

I agree about the shadowing. I find in some cases I need to refine a value to a more correct/cleaned/canonical form, but a separate method to establish an all-new scope is too much and would impact clarity. In those cases it's an insidious bug to accidentally be using an old/non-canonical form of something in the following code somewhere, mixed in with the uses of the refined form, just because the name can't be shadowed. It's very hard to spot because both forms seem to "read" correctly in isolation.