The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition

4.34 Namespaces

One really nice feature of records and unions is that the field names are local to a given record or union declaration. That is, you can reuse field names in different records or unions. This is an important feature of HLA because it helps avoid namespace pollution. Namespace pollution occurs when you use up all the "good" names within your program and you have to start creating nondescriptive names for objects because you've already used the most appropriate name for something else. We use the term namespace to describe how HLA associates names with a particular object. The field names of a record have a namespace that is limited to objects of that record type. HLA provides a generalization of this namespace mechanism that lets ...