On a purely syntactic level snake_case gives me a clear indication this is something different (not a module). But the underlying mechanics of how namespaces wo

On a purely syntactic level snake_case gives me a clear indication this is something different (not a module). But the underlying mechanics of how namespaces would work, as I've mentioned in another comment, is that the choice of picking namespace identifiers is shifted to users of gems/libraries. I think the proposal might further benefit from maybe giving libraries default namespaces and, for example, Go does exactly this: you can import a package with the namespace prefix defined by package author, but you can also change it or import it without a namespace prefix at all.