Scope and Shadowing
This lesson teaches you about the scope of a variable.
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Scope of a variable
The scope of a variable refers to the visibility of a variable, or , which parts of a program can access that variable.
It all depends on where this variable is being declared. If it is declared inside any curly braces {}
, i.e., a block of code, its scope is restricted within the braces, otherwise the scope is global.
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