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Questions about C++, a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language.

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What is "using namespace" pollution?

This is because: 1) it defeats the entire purpose of namespaces, which is to reduce name collision; 2) it makes available to the global namespace the entire namespace specified with the using directiv …
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