in reply to requires explicit package name

To elaborate on Abigail-II's correct answer, the problem is in the line(s) above the snippet you're showing us. Most likely, there's a colon instead of a semi-colon somewhere. Or, someone chose to leave off the semi-colon on the last line in a block (which is legal, but usually dumb, for this very reason) and you removed the block, but left the code.

To generalize, if you can't find the error where the compiler complains, try looking a few lines above and seeing if it's there.

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