Expert question on named contexts

[Mats Bengtsson]

Since I have only used LilyPond for 11 years, I have some remaining 
questions on how it works.
Can anybody tell me exactly what happens with the context names in the 
following example.

\relative c' <<
\new Staff \new Voice = myvoice { c d e f }
\new Staff \context Voice = myvoice { g f e d }
>>

Clearly, I get two Voice contexts, even though they are given the same 
name.
It's also clear that the input is ambigous, since it both states that 
the two voices
should be treated as a single Voice context, but also that they should 
be part of
separate Staff contexts (which means that they cannot be the same Voice 
context).
Apparently, LilyPond lets the latter requirement override the former one.
However, what happens to the context names? Is the Voice context in the 
lower
stave given some random unknown name or do both have the same name but are
kept separate because of the context hierarchy. In the latter case, is 
it even possible
to refer to the Voice context of the lower stave using the name 
"myvoice", under
some circumstance?

  /Mats

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