I'm really not a fan of adding multiple ways to do things to a language as it makes the language harder to learn because newbies like to ask "What's the right way?". It does seem like this is just a tradeoff, do we want to support code-folding of externs in the language or leave that to the editor. I really think it should be left to the editor as keeping the language smaller definitely has its upsides.
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