Dear colleagues!

As a step towards the implementation of long axonal delay support in NEST by Jan (https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/2989), Jan has prepared and I have recently merged https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/pull/3947, which sorts out the rather unsystematic use of the nest namespace in C++ files. Where we earlier frequently used

void nest::iaf_psc_alpha::update(...)

we now wrap the entire file in the namespace and define all methods inside

namespace nest {       void iaf_psc_alpha::update(...) }

with exceptions only in cases where such definition inside the namespace is not correct.

This affects most model and nestkernel files, but the changes are very stereotypical: remove nest:: and wrap all in namespace nest {}.

Please merge main into all branches that are part of open pull requests (or that are to become pull requests) to minimize changesets.

Best, Hans Ekkehard

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