c++ namespace best practice dilemma

Question

I\'m finding that what I\'ve considered \"best practice\" for use namespace in c++ is hurting the readability of my code, and making me question how to use them well.

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Answer 1

My experience have been that it is much more convenient to have one namespace for all your code for the reasons you mentioned in your original post. This namespace protects your identifiers from clashing with identifiers from 3rd-party libraries. Your namespace is your dominion and it is easy to keep it name-conflict-free.