Could someone explain to me the reason for using namespaces? I've just always been instructed to do<P>using namespace std;<P>without any explanation (so far).

Describe Current Status and Possible Solution currently, a lot of header files include using namespace std, maybe we should remove this statement to avoid potential namespace pollution. alma@DESKTO ...

Steps to reproduce: create a new file called main.cpp and use the c++ language mode use the msys64 debugger (might not be required but i do make sure to rather include) write some code with cout in ...