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Feature #21155

Updated by artur86 (Artur *) 16 days ago

Given there is a file with a class that needs to be namespaced. There are basically two options currently. options. 

 `module` implies requires indenting the class by one level: 

 ```ruby 
 module MyNamespace 
   class MyClass; end 
 end 
 ``` 

 Scope resolution operator (`::`) needs no indentation, does not require it, but it works differently than using `module` and repeating module name for every class inside seems tedious and verbose to me: 
 ```ruby 

 class MyNamespace::MyClass; end 
 class MyNamespace::MyAnotherClass; end 
 class MyNamespace::OneMoreClass; end 
 end 
 ``` 

 Neither options enables Wouldn't it be better to declare a namespace once be able to say `module MyNamespace` at the top of a the file once and let expect Ruby to treat all the subsequent constants in that file to be under that namespace.  

 namespace? 

 This is implemented in C# under the name of [File Scoped Namespaces](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/proposals/csharp-10.0/file-scoped-namespaces). 

 [The discussion The concept is very clearly formulated in [a question on StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/q/40809717/2987689). StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/q/40809717/2987689) and sounds like "everything in this file should be in some module".

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