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Subject: Re: Splitting the object and type name spaces? (Was: Types, packages
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(forgotten)

and the syntax will turns into ambiguous constructs, because there are
place where this would not be possible to know if an identifier is to
be a type or an object/function.

B := A (Index) -- View conversion or array or function ?

To make the distinction between array and function is easy (the array
may be seen as a kind of function) : both cannot have the same name,
so it is what has this name. If A is declared as an array, this is an
array, if A is declared as a function, this is a function.

But if A can be a function/array name and a type name in the same
time, there is a trouble.

This may be the danger you are looking for : the whole language syntax
will need to be reworked (forget about all backward compatibility).