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The number of languages that have separate namespaces for the two things is very small. See all the C descendants that discarded that idea: C++, C#, Java, Rust,

• Ontonator 4y ago
  I can’t speak for the others, but Rust definitely has separate namespaces for them. See https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/reference/names/namespaces.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/reference/names/namespaces.ht...
  • Bytewave81 4y ago
    Not the type of namespace being referred to. In this case, it's referring to the requirement to refer to all types of a certain category with a keyword, as in `struct Foo`. In Rust, you can refer to a struct named Foo as just `Foo`.
    • Ontonator 4y ago
      I disagree. There may not be a keyword required to refer to `struct`s specifically, but the namespace that is searched when resolving a symbol is determined by the syntax used to refer to it. For example, in C++, you cannot determine whether `a` is a type or a value in the statement `a * b;` without knowing how it is declared, and C also has this ambiguity once `typedef`s are involved. In Rust, there are no such ambiguities (unless there's something I've missed).
• hvdijk 4y ago
  C++ didn't discard that idea entirely, you can have a struct tag and a function with the same name and you need to be able to do that in order to use stat().