>...or, hear me out, you can not make the mistake of mindlessly adding using namespace directives and therefore ensure neither you nor any consumer of your code will risk.having to handle perfectly avoidabld name clashes.
I'm not talking about "mindlessly" adding these namespace statements. I'm saying, use good judgement. As I pointed out, if you use a little common sense you won't have name clashes and even if you did, they usually cause compile errors. Just don't put them in headers ffs... If you really just need a lot of stuff from another namespace in a function, put the using statement in that function.
>And by the way, name clashes will also happen if you include code from two or more dependencies which introduce ambiguous symbols. This is code outside of your control.
The using statements are not outside your control, unless someone put them in a header. That's the only place I broadly object to them.
I'm not talking about "mindlessly" adding these namespace statements. I'm saying, use good judgement. As I pointed out, if you use a little common sense you won't have name clashes and even if you did, they usually cause compile errors. Just don't put them in headers ffs... If you really just need a lot of stuff from another namespace in a function, put the using statement in that function.
>And by the way, name clashes will also happen if you include code from two or more dependencies which introduce ambiguous symbols. This is code outside of your control.
The using statements are not outside your control, unless someone put them in a header. That's the only place I broadly object to them.