Interesting behavior of compiler with namespaces

by 
X::A a;
f(a);

works because of Argument-Dependent Lookup (Also known as Koenig Lookup). a is an object of class A inside namespace X, when compiler searches a match-able function f, it will look into namespace X in this case. See Argument Dependent Lookup for more information.

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