Right, like I said, often you can only figure out where things are coming from 
at runtime ... and that's going to be more true of languages without static 
typing, like Python. And yes, both extension methods and inheritance increase 
the distance from the use of its name to the implementation. And consider 
Scala's implicits, which are like extensions on steroids.

But I think that the OP made two arguments, and the first one was about the 
absence of namespaces resulting in prefixed names or other workarounds, and he 
gave a bunch of Julia examples ... that doesn't have anything to do with 
figuring out what a name references. 

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