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Now, imagine the users of the houses want to refer to each bath room using just the word (symbol/variable) "bath". To be able to resolve this properly, they will also need to qualify what house they are referring to, i.e. if it's house1, house2, house3. | Now, imagine the users of the houses want to refer to each bath room using just the word (symbol/variable) "bath". To be able to resolve this properly, they will also need to qualify what house they are referring to, i.e. if it's house1, house2, house3. | ||
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Basically, namespaces make it possible to have identically named variables/symbols without them possibly "clashing" or "polluting" the global namespace. | Basically, namespaces make it possible to have identically named variables/symbols without them possibly "clashing" or "polluting" the global namespace. | ||