ISBN: | 978-5-5087-3097-0 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In computer programming, a scope is the context within a computer program in which a variable name or other identifier is valid and can be used, or within which a declaration has effect. Outside of the scope of a variable name, the variable`s value may still be stored, and may even be accessible in some way, but the name does not refer to it; that is, the name is not bound to the variable`s storage.