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Types and variables in a different namespace

What would it take to design a language that permitted construct such as below?

int int = 10;

Such a language would need to be able to infer contextually whether a type name or an expression is expected. Are there any constructs in a C++ or Java style language that would be equally valid whether a type name or an expression is used in any particular place, making them truly ambiguous if the identifier was both defined as an expression and a type? How can they be worked around syntactically?


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