When to use a namespace or a struct?

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Published on 2010-04-10T17:55:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 18:03 UTC
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I was just reading a little bit on them from http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/namespaces/ and it seems like a struct is capable of the same things? Or even a class for that matter. Maybe someone here can better define what a namespace is, and how it differs from a struct/class?

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