Using using how to use the std namespace david kieras, eecs department, university of michigan febrary 2015 why namespaces. The fly in that ointment is that it lets the compiler see any std name, even the ones you didnt think about. Namespaces are created using the namespace command. They are commonly used as a convenient shortcut for long or deeplynested namespaces. It also discusses some of the obvious ways of simulating them in c, including a technique for reifying them, using structs. The idea of namespaces is quite common in computing languages. Namespace is a container for set of identifiers that is used to group variables and procedures. An element containing the declaration and all of its descendants are in the scope of the namespace.
While this practice is okay for short example code or trivial programs, pulling in the entire std namespace into the global namespace is not a good habit as it. Although the statement saves us from typing std whenever we wish to access a class or type defined in the std namespace. Creating a namespace is similar to creation of a class. While this practice is okay for example code, pulling in the entire std namespace into the global namespace is not good as it defeats the purpose of namespaces and. Now with namespaces, we have additional partitions of global scope. In the above example, a namespace mynamespace is created. The compiler hasnt a clue what that type is, as std. I dont quite get what the potential drawbacks of using namespace std are. The using namespace bar statement only brings those things defined at that time into the foo namespace. For using identifiers it can be defined in the namespace scope as below. Why using namespace std is considered bad practice. Get the declaration of the primary stdhash template.
Where identifier is any valid identifier and entities is the set of classes, objects and functions that are included within the namespace. However, if you do not write using namespace std, then you need to fully qualify the names you use from the standard library. Namespace affects only a limited area in the document. A namespace is a set of names of objects in a system. As giblit has already said, using using namespace std. One trick with namespaces is to use an unnamed namespace to avoid naming conflicts. The using namespace statement just means that in the scope it is present, make all the things under the std namespace available without having to prefix std before each of them. Read here for why after editing by nathan, it is obvious that string isnt sufficient for your prototype. This is a structure for the information needed for an employee struct emprecord int id.
Without namespaces, you cannot create another writeline method in your program because this method already exists. I generally like to organize classes i make into modules by using namespaces, and i also dont go more than 2 namespaces deep but its still painstakingly hard to fully qualify everything ive thought of using using directives but i dont want some headers polluting other headers. When programs get very large and complex, and make heavy use of libraries from a variety of sources, the possibility of name collisions rears its incredibly annoying head. Before the introduction of the namespaces, there was single global scope. The compiler joins the parts together during preprocessing and the resulting namespace contains all the members declared in all the parts.
Consider this, there are two students in one classroom having same name for example vishal. A namespace definition begins with the keyword namespace followed by the namespace. Tech tutorials tutorials and posts about java, spring, hadoop and many more. All declarations within those blocks are declared in the named scope.
Namespace aliases allow the programmer to define an alternate name for a namespace. This post describes why namespaces are useful in programming. But using std all the time can sometimes produce rather cluttered code if you e. A namespace can be declared in multiple blocks in a single file, and in multiple files. That means stdstring instead of string, stdcout instead of cout, and so forth. The alternative to this statement is to specify the namespace to which the identifier belongs using the scope operator each time we declare a type. I see people repeating the argument about dragging everything from namespace std into the global namespace with using namespace std. The cnamespace enables you to use the bean elements attributes for configuring the constructor arguments rather than nested constructorarg elements. People dont like typing std over and over, and they discover that using namespace std lets the compiler see any std name, even if unqualified. An example of this is the std namespace which is declared in each of the header files in the standard library. All of the standard library is in one drawer, and the only way to get to. The statement using namespace std is generally considered bad practice. In practice, this doesnt usually cause too may problems, but.
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