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| − | + | A namespace is an abstract container providing context for the items (names, or technical terms, or words) it holds and allows disambiguation of items having the same name. | |
| + | As a rule, names in a namespace cannot have more than one meaning, that is, two or more things cannot share the same name. | ||
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| + | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namespaces Namespaces] from [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] | ||
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A namespace is an abstract container providing context for the items (names, or technical terms, or words) it holds and allows disambiguation of items having the same name.
As a rule, names in a namespace cannot have more than one meaning, that is, two or more things cannot share the same name.
- Namespaces from Wikipedia
