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The C# Programming Language, Third Edition
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The C# Programming Language, Third Edition

by Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde
October 2008
Intermediate to advanced
784 pages
18h 11m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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9. Namespaces

C# programs are organized using namespaces. Namespaces are used both as an “internal” organization system for a program and as an “external” organization system—a way of presenting program elements that are exposed to other programs.

Using directives (§9.4) are provided to facilitate the use of namespaces.

9.1 Compilation Units

A compilation-unit defines the overall structure of a source file. A compilation unit consists of zero or more using-directives followed by zero or more global-attributes followed by zero or more namespace-member-declarations.

        compilation-unit:                extern-alias-directivesopt using-directivesopt global-attributesopt                        namespace-member-declarationsopt

A C# program consists ...

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