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In article <1992Aug5.205845.22880@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>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.)

Within the static partitions of a program, a variable is either local to the
procedure or global.  Modula-2 can do the static trick too... It's not confus-
ing.  I'm not sure what you mean by the variable's lifetime.  

But this is getting fairly specific to C.  Perhaps we should move this to some
place more appropriate.