My guess would be: banning of namespaces and templates greatly simplifies name resolution and so on. For instance, look at https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/lan

My guess would be: banning of namespaces and templates greatly simplifies name resolution and so on. For instance, look at https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lookup https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lookup and then remove namepsaces and templates from the picture. Or maybe they just wanted developers to be "less creative". -ss