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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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Olsson, M. (2013). Namespaces. In: C++ Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6278-7_22

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