# Namespaces

**URL:** <https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/namespaces/894>\
**Category:** Help & Support\
**Created:** [June 27, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/namespaces/894 "2019-06-27T03:52:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Didactic.Drunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@Didactic.Drunk](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/Didactic.Drunk)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/namespaces/894/1 "2019-06-27T03:52:27Z")

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Should a shard use a common namespace such as Crypto::Foo, Cryptography::Foo or use the name of the shard?

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**Author:** ![watzon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/watzon/32/481_2.png) [@watzon](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/watzon)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/namespaces/894/2 "2019-06-28T18:06:05Z")

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I feel like that depends on the shard. For cases when a shard is meant to add extra functionality to an existing shard I don’t see a problem with using the same namespace, but in most other cases I feel like the namespace should echo the name of the shard.