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rrogers@cs.washington.edu (Richard Rogers) writes:
>I like C's scoping rules.  (And that's the ONLY thing I like about C!!!)
>Variables are either global or local to the procedure - simple.

Variables can also have file scope, achieved by putting them outside a function
and using the storage class "static".  The scope of the variable is the REST of
the file, so scope is fairly finely divisible.  Also, in C, variable scope is
not equivalent to variable lifetime like it is in some programming languages,
nor do all variables have the same lifetime like they do in most of the rest.

It's not simple.  (I do like it, though; I also like the rest of C.)