using namespace std?

[Nathan1993]

I am learning c++ and using VC++. I have a lot of programming experience in BASIC, HTML, and ASM. I started programming in the eend of 4th grade, so I have a lot of experience, but I am the type of person that wants to know what every line in thier program works. When I was learning C++, my tutorial told me to put the following line into my code.

using namespace std;

But what does that do? I understand a lot about memory/bitwise calculations and ect, so odds are I know every term that you will talk about. Thanks everyone!

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[laserlight]

You probably should just search the Web, but anyway: namespaces.

[Nathan1993]

Thank you very much.