[lnenad]

> There are lots of good explanations in this subthread for why shadowing as a concept is great

Not really. All of them boil down to ergonomics, when in reality it doesn't bring a lot of benefit other than people hating on more descriptive variable names (which is fair).

[lolinder]

You're saying ergonomics aren't a good explanation? The entire point of a programming language over writing machine code boils down to ergonomics! You've got to do better than "it's just ergonomics" when your argument for a language to ban shadowing is also "just ergonomics".

The debate here is about which one truly has better ergonomics!