> We ran away from self-documentating variable names and prefixes, and toward namespaces namespace Gujarati { class Masala { ... } } Gujarati::Masala m;

> We ran away from self-documentating variable names and prefixes, and toward namespaces namespace Gujarati { class Masala { ... } } Gujarati::Masala m; // variable with required namespace using namespace Gujarati; Masala m2; // variable with implicit namespace Gujarati::Masala m3; // variable with unnecessary explicit namespace namespace Bengali { Gujarati::Masala the_masala; } Bengali::the_masala = ....; using namespace Bengali; the_masala = ....; Bengali::the_masala = ...; AKA "do watcha wanna do"