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.
Most identifiersin the Java(TM) programming environment have either class or local scope. Instance and classvariables and methods have class scope; they can be used outside the class and its subclasses onlyby prefixing them with an instance of the class or (for class variables and methods) with the classname.