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I'm all up for new, exciting, slightly scary but promising concepts in programming. Rust's borrow checker. Python extremely-dynamic syntax. Nim's "Python syntax, native code, GC" premise.

Exploring different ways to write the same name does not excite me.

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Reading through the GitHub issue, it seems like the one place it makes sense in my eyes is that you can refer to stuff in external libraries with your convention even if the library uses a different one. I'm not sure if there's something I'm not thinking of, but to me it'd make sense if the library boundary was the only place it let you do it.

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