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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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True. In that case it would be a horror. Using a class or a struct with the name of a type defined in the framework without fully qualifiying the type to point out that it is not the type you would normally assume it to be, is downright deceptive. To be able to do that you also have to leave out the system namespace where the type in question is located and only use the namespace where the 'Acme' type is located. Include both and you have no choice but to fully qualify the types in your code.
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