[W/K] :: lexical scope

  lexical scope
       
           (Or "static scope") In a lexically scoped
          language, the scope of an identifier is fixed at compile
          time to some region in the source code containing the
          identifier's declaration.  This means that an identifier is
          only accessible within that region (including procedures
          declared within it).
       
          This contrasts with dynamic scope where the scope depends on
          the nesting of procedure and function calls at run time.
       
          Statically scoped languages differ as to whether the scope is
          limited to the smallest block (including begin/end blocks)
          containing the identifier's declaration (e.g. C, Perl) or
          to whole function and procedure bodies (e.g. ?), or some
          larger unit of code (e.g. ?).  The former is known as static
          nested scope.
       
          (2001-09-07)