Comments on: Namespaces http://www.technicalinterviews.net/namespaces/ This site features a collection of common technical interview questions gathered by a group of programmers who have been through, and given, lots of technical interviews. There is an emphasis on C++ and game programming technical interviews, but most of the questions are relevant to any technical interview. Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:18:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mayank http://www.technicalinterviews.net/namespaces/comment-page-1/#comment-1447 Mayank Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:03:33 +0000 http://www.technicalinterviews.net/namespaces/#comment-1447 Namespace is used to avoid function name clashes between different libraries, it declares all function/variables within a scope which remains hidden otherwise until explictly mentioned which is done by the keywords 'using'. eg. namespace myfuncs { void func1(); int func2(); int fg; } .. .. .. in some file when you write ... ... using namespace myfuncs; ... Namespace is used to avoid function name clashes between different libraries, it declares all function/variables within a scope which remains hidden otherwise until explictly mentioned which is done by the keywords ‘using’.

eg.

namespace myfuncs {
void func1();
int func2();

int fg;
}

..
..
..

in some file when you write …

…
using namespace myfuncs;

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