RE: A very basic question.

> [Simon Kelly]
> But I have never really understood what a
> name-space is really refering too.
>
> Could someone give me a small explination 
> (preferably in basic englis ;-)

A name-space is used to distinguish two similarly-named things. Consider the domain name system (DNS) of the internet. The internet could have these domains: "knell.com" and "knell.net".

The local name part of each domain is the same ("knell"), but the two domains are distinguished by belonging to different name-spaces ("com" and "net").

Is this enough, or do you need more detail?
-- 
Charles Knell
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