> I would personally be happy to sacrifice that feature and add an explicit "global" keyword but not everybody agrees, and it would break a lot of code. For su

> I would personally be happy to sacrifice that feature and add an explicit "global" keyword but not everybody agrees, and it would break a lot of code. For sure. That ship has probably sailed. And, like you said, linters alleviate a lot of that pain. But that's a separate question from, "is this a good language feature?"