Including stdio.h imports the symbol names in the Global namespace and possibly in the std namespace. Let us apply this rule to our sample codes and measure the pros and cons: Sample 1: This brings all the symbols from stdio.h in the global namespace. Advantage is that you can use the symbols without any qualification since they are imported in ... More @Wikipedia
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