Indeed. The way people bang on about "cluttering namespaces" you'd be forgiven for thinking that they are like attics, permanently attached to the house and liable to become cluttered over years.IMO this is clearer, and even shorter!
But it clutters the namespace with objects you don't need.
Why do people care about cluttering namespaces so much? I thought thats' what namespaces were for -- to put stuff you want to remember for a bit. A function's local namespace in particular seems a perfectly fine place for temporaries.
Most function namespaces are in fact extremely short-lived, and there is little point worrying about clutter as long as there's no chance of confusion.
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