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Namespaces are used to avoid naming conflicts by allowing entities, such as classes and functions, to be grouped under a separate scope. In the example below there are two classes that belong to the global scope. Since both classes share the same name and scope the code will not compile.
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© 2015 Mikael Olsson
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Olsson, M. (2015). Namespaces. In: C++ 14 Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1727-6_22
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