Organization with Namespaces
Given its enormous proportions, a good structure is invaluable to discoverability of features in the BCL. One key approach to enable this is by using a hierarchical organization of the types provided, as opposed to the flat structure seen in the Win32 API. In the world of managed code, this translates into the use of namespaces. The following are a few examples of common namespaces and the functionality they group together:
System contains the primitive data types like Int32, Double, String, Booleans, and others.
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