Why are typedef names in the same name space as variable names?

[Tim Smith]

There is already a problem with telling when the declarations end.
Consider this program:

	main() {
		a;      /* declare an integer variable */
		a = 1;  /* put something in it */
	}

Every C compiler I have tried complains about an undeclared variable on
line 2.  If "a" is a global, they have no problem:

	a;
	main() {
		a = 1;
	}
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