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title: "What problem does the namespace feature solve?"  
description: "What problem does the namespace feature solve?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2012-08-17  
updated: 2020-09-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1507/what-problem-does-the-namespace-feature-solve  
category: "visual c++"  
tags: ["visual c++", "c++", "c#", "mindstick", "interview question", "namespace"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What problem does the namespace feature solve?

Multiple providers of libraries might use common global identifiers causing a name collision when an application tries to link with two or more such libraries. The namespace feature surrounds a library?s external declarations with a unique namespace that eliminates the potential for those collisions.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

Multiple providers of libraries might use common global identifiers causing a name collision when an application tries to link with two or more such libraries. The namespace feature surrounds a library?s external declarations with a unique namespace that eliminates the potential for those collisions.


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