> >
> > It's a bicycle-shed issue. The committee spent hours wrangling and 
> > agreed on a messy compromise that satisfies no-one.
> 
> Why, for what pressing reason, had this to be put in the 
> specification?
> 
> What are the use-cases, whose solution depends significantly 
> on this feature?

Some people regard the ability to have two variables with the same name
as a feature that needs to be justified.

Some people regard the inability to have two variables with the same
name as a restriction that needs to be justified.

The latter group won.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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