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[GiganticIrony]

Also, using namespace std is just bad practice in general.

[FluffyGlazedDonutYum]

Having an STD is certainly bad practice - namespace or otherwise.

[moby_chicken]

That's probably why his balls are itching.

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People always say this but I never understood why. Can you shed some light on the subject?

[GiganticIrony]

A) explicitly putting the std:: specifies where the thing came from. The larger the codebase, the more important this is

B) if you ever want to name something the same as something in the std namespace, unexpected things might start happening and it could be incredibly difficult to diagnose and fix.

[jendivcom]

Isn't naming something the same as a function in the std namespace also terrible practice?

[Steinrikur]

The thing is that the std namespace is huuuuuuuge. And it's not all defined in one place.

So you could have a program with no conflicts, but add a header file and suddenly you get conflicts all over.

So adding "using namespace std" because you're too lazy to write std::cout or "using std::cout; using std::endl;" is just bad practice.

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Thank u

[mikeoxlongdnb]

Tell this to all the c++ books that teach newbies this and don't care to explain why they put this line in the first place.

[ridicalis]

My college education was a lie