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@@ -223,10 +223,6 @@ export), with Plovr in ADVANCED mode, and with Plovr in RAW (debug) mode.
 Running the examples with Plovr makes it mandatory to declare dependencies with
 `goog.require` statements.
 
-Exporting `goog.require` has a side effect: it adds the `goog` namespace object
-to the global object. This is why we can, for example, have `if (goog.DEBUG)`
-statements in the code of the examples.
-
 ## Writing good commit messages
 
 We follow http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html