What is namespace?

While writing big programs involving several programmers, things are likely to go out of hand if proper control is not exercised over visibility of these names.

//mylib.h
char fun()
void display();
class CMath{...};
//somelib.h
class CMath{...};
void display();

If both these header files are included in a program, there would be a clash between the two CMath classes. A solution would be to create long names which have lesser chances of clashing but the programmers are required to type these long names. But C++ provides a better solution through a keyword named namespace. C++ provides a single global name spaces. The global name space can be sub-divided into more manageable pieces using name space feature in C++.

//mylib.h
namespace myheader
{
char fun()
void display();
class CMath{...};
}
//somelib.h
namespace somelib
{
class CMath{...};
void display();
}

The class names will not clash as they become mylib::CMath and somelib::CMath respectively. Same thing would happen to the function names.

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