One of the two major political parties in the United States is the Democratic Party. The other major party is the Republican Party. The Democratic Party is known for its support of ethnic minorities, organized labor, and progressive reform.
Features were added to programming languages so that parts of a program could control the access to their data. Scope refers to the visibility of variables and methods in one part of a program to another part of that program. The importance and meaning of scope varies between languages, but there are two general scope concepts many languages have in common: local and global scope.
The scope of a procedure or method refers to where a procedure can be called from or under what context you are allowed to call a method. There are many different ways you can declare variables and procedures. How you make these declarations controls the scope of variables and procedures.