Another possible solution to the global scope debacle

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Agree. Another way to look at it is: having both Julia 1.x and 2.x out there in the world has a cost. People need to spend more time dealing with the existence of incompatible versions. (I don’t want to dwell on it, but of course the python 2/3 split is the canonical example.) To pay that cost, there has to be some balancing benefit: Julia 2.0 has to be significantly better than 1.0 to make it worthwhile. While this scope change is highly desired by many people, I don’t think it meets that bar.