Re: Is "scope" different from "visibility" ?

From: Peter (phaywood_at_alphalink.com.au.NO.SPAM)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:04:17 GMT

Groovy hepcat Jack Klein was jivin' on Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:07:43 -0600
in comp.lang.c.
Re: Is "scope" different from "visibility" ?'s a cool scene! Dig it!

>On 9 Feb 2005 20:04:04 -0800, "TTroy" <tinesan@gmail.com> wrote in
>comp.lang.c:
>
>Scope is independent of linkage. Definitions or declarations inside a
>block have scope that lasts to the end of that block, but block scope
>declarations have no linkage. A file scope definition with the static
>keyword also has no linkage.

  Uh..., internal linkage, I think, Jack.

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6.2.2 Linkages of identifiers
...
3 If the declaration of a file scope identifier for an object or a
function contains the storageclass specifier static, the identifier
has internal linkage.20)
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