JavaScript local alias pattern
Heres a little pattern that is fairly common from JavaScript developers but that is not very well known from C# developers or people doing only occasional JavaScript development. In C#, you can use a using directive to create aliases of namespaces or bring them to the global scope: namespace Fluent.IO {
using System;
using System.Collections;
using SystemIO = System.IO;
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