Namespace In C++

Definition of Namespace

A namespace (sometimes also called a name scope) is an abstract container or environment created to hold a logical grouping of unique identifiers or symbols (i.e., names).


Namespaces allow us to group named entities that otherwise would have global scope into narrower scopes, giving them namespace scope.

A namespace is designed to overcom this difficulty and is used as additional information to differentiate similar functions, classes, variables etc. with the same name available in different libraries.

Namespaces allow to group entities like classes, objects and functions under a name. This way the global scope can be divided in "sub-scopes", each one with its own name.

Namespace is a container for identifiers. It puts the names of its members in a distinct space so that they don't conflict with the names in other namespaces or global namespace.

Example 1:



Output:

	
 f of Y namespace
 f of X namespace
 

Example 2:



Output:

 5
 2.7183
 10
 3.1416