[Proposal]: Top-level members
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# Top-level members
* Specification: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/proposals/top-level-members.md
* Discussion: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/9802
## Summary
Allow some members (methods, operators, extension blocks, and fields) to be declared in namespaces
and make them available when the corresponding namespace is imported.
```cs
// util.cs
namespace MyApp;
void Print(string s) => Console.WriteLine(s);
string Capitalize(this string input) =>
input.Length == 0 ? input : char.ToUpper(input[0]) + input[1..];
```
## Design meetings
- [LDM 2025-08-18](https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/c85bbf501958fa86ee2db94b14c82ee8fd2066b9/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-08-18.md?plain=1#L72)
- https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2025/LDM-2025-12-17.md#top-level-members
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