Global variable “count” ambiguous

Question

#include 
using namespace std;

int count = 0, cache[50];

int f(int n)
{  
    if(n == 2) count++;
    if(n == 0 || n==1) return n;
    else if (ca         


        

Answer 1

The problem is all because of the second line here:

#include 
using namespace std;

The line using namespace std brings all the names from which also has a function called count, and in your code, you've declared a variable count. Hence the ambiguous error.

The solution is to never write using namespace std. It is bad bad bad.

Instead, use std::cout, std::cin, std::endl, std::count and so on, in your code.