What is meant by Scope of a variable?
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I think of the scope of a variable as -
"The scope of a particular variable is the range within a program's source code in which that variable is recognized by the compiler".
That statement is from "Scope and Lifetime of Variables in C++", which I read many months ago.
Recently I came across this in LeMoyne-Owen College courses:
What exactly is the difference between the scope of variables in C# and (C99, C++, Java) when
However a variable still must be declared before it can be used
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