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That's one way of putting it. I'd say you have the variable definition at the place where it is needed.

Typically, I'm more interested in the meaning of a variable than the type of a variable. The...

So, what do you do when you introduce, say, a boost library to a cpp file that you created before? Do you remove "using namespace std;" and spend maybe 10 minutes to fix all the compiler errors?...

Personally, I'd advice against putting "using namespace std;" in your code. It doesn't save much typing (which is always a bad reason, by the way), doesn't make your code that much more readable and...