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Avoid using directives in header files

April 14, 2009 by Marius Bancila

It is often that I see people using namespace directives in header files. This is a bad practice maybe not enought explained, so I will try to clarify why one should always avoid this. When you are using a using directive (such as using namespace std) or using declarations (such as using std::cout) you are … Read more

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