Hi Colin and all!

First of all - you are brave :)

Anyway, a few thoughts of mine, although I am no longer "invested" in 
this area, I was earlier but have given up waaaay back.

1. AFAICT this will (in contrary to my solution) remove the 
"modelessness" we have today. Or in other words, a code snippet will 
behave differently depending on which environment you are in. One can 
argue that this also holds true today (class variables shadowing globals 
for example) but still. It reminds me of VA for Java where you had to 
tell the "Workspace" in which class it was being run (in order to get 
all the imports right). I am not sure I like where this is leading. 
NOTE: My proposal meant that all class refs were actually in full, never 
short. They just "rendered" short when it was reasonable.

2. Reading code will force me to always be aware of which environments 
are imported into the package I am reading. Otherwise I will not know 
which class is referred to when I read "Manager". NOTE: My proposal 
would always expand names into full names if there were more than two in 
the image.

3. And finally, this is AFAICT the same "pessimistic" approach that Java 
etc use - in other words, each developer/project will create his/her own 
little sandbox (=environment) and will start creating duplicate names 
for things (knowingly or unknowingly) and will never really "notice" 
this because this solution will never make it apparent that it has been 
done. NOTE: My proposal would lead to ambiguous names being rendered 
with full path and also asking the developer if he meant Color::Orange 
of Fruit::Orange whenever he tried to type just "Orange" - thus making 
him (and all others) aware of the slightly unfortunate name clash.

I am merely contrasting this with my own proposal from years back in 
order to hear people's views on the above aspects.

Personally I am *happy* that this stone is finally turned.

On the other hand I am *unhappy* that you aren't facing any opposition 
because unfortunately it may just indicate that our community have 
shrunk considerably and people are instead flaming each other over on 
Pharo-dev. ;)

regards, Göran