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Name Spaces and Reusability

A major problem when developing reusable code is that of name conflicts.

Vendor B might develop a library of classes, while Vendor M might develop another library of classes. Customer C wants to use both libraries, but discovers that a number of class names have been duplicated across the two libraries.

What to do?

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