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Puzzling namespace-less help message for an unexported binding #52472

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help?> IteratorSize
search: IteratorSize Iterators IteratorEltype iterate

Couldn't find IteratorSize
Perhaps you meant IteratorSize or Iterators
  No documentation found.

  Binding IteratorSize does not exist.

The suggestion should probably read "Perhaps you meant Base.IteratorSize or Iterators", as otherwise what's going wrong is a bit unclear. Something similar may also be needed for the terms displayed in the first line after search:.

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julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.11.0-DEV.1030
Commit b5abac441db (2023-12-06 05:12 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: 8 × 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, tigerlake)
  Threads: 1 on 8 virtual cores
Environment:
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH = :/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/modules
  JULIA_EDITOR = subl

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