One of the purposes of namespaces is to allow you to have two classes named the same thing, each in a different namespace. Sometimes you'll need to use both in the same method and will need to fully qualify them.

>I know that - but that doesn't make String a reserved word
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>As to avoiding it I agree
>(1) confusion / havinh to fully qualify the class in the IDE
>(2) The name String doesn't tell me anything