Thread: Namespaces

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    Namespaces

    I've never touched them and the book I have is really old and doesn't even mention them. I think they are used to avoid confusion between naming of class functions, but how do you use them, and what is the syntax? Anyone care to explain? Thanks.

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    Simple. Lets say you define two classes with the same name. Namespacing allows you to be able to differenciate between the two. For example: one::Class, two::Class. It's simple to do:

    Code:
    // one.h
    namespace one
    {
        char func(char);
        class String { ... };
    }
    
    // somelib.h
    namespace SomeLib
    {
        class String { ... };
    }
    You can now reference them as SomeLib::String and one::String.

    Get it?

    (For more information check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...namespaces.asp and http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...namespaces.asp)
    -Mike
    {InFeStEd-ArCh0n}

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    Your old book didn't talk about them because namespaces are relatively new.

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    Yeah that's what I was implying.

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