namespace.md

Namespace

• A namespace is a declarative region that provides a scope to the identifiers (the names of types, functions, variables, etc) inside it. Namespaces are used to organize code into logical groups and to prevent name collisions that can occur especially when your code base includes multiple libraries.

Creating a namespace

• A normal class with a normal purpose.

namespace customer
{
}

Within the class code block, we can create a variable.

namespace customer
{
	new[str]name="Alex"
}

To use this variable, we need to include the class name within the variable name; like this:

console.println(customer::name)

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Hooking namespaces

• You can also hook a namespace. To hook a namespace means to extend a namespace and add more elements to an existing namespace instead of creating a new one. For example, this is our code right now:

namespace customer
{
	new[str]name="Alex"
}

console.println(customer::name)

We can hook the customer namespace:

namespace customer
{
	new[str]name="Alex"
}

console.println(customer::name)

using namespace customer
{
	new[int]age=12
}

console.cout(customer::age)