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// expected to issue diagnostics and throw failed. Note that the arguments
// are conceptually "moved" and can be reused by the implementation.
//
+ // @@ Maybe it makes sense to implicitly convert types like string to names
+ // -- providing all the overload combinations really gets tedious.
+ //
// A function can also optionally receive the current scope by having the
// first argument of the const scope* type. It may be NULL is the function
// is called out of any scope (e.g., command line).
//
+ // Note also that we don't pass the location to the function instead
+ // printing the info message pointing to the call site.
+ //
// Normally functions come in families that share a common qualification
// (e.g., string. or path.). The function_family class is a "registrar"
// that simplifies handling of function families. For example: