I used the word explicit because I was thinking something along the lines of: the scope in lisp is explicitly defined with parentheses (). Where as something like a static variable (or pretty much any variable that&#x27;s defined in Algol like languages) has implicit scoping, it&#x27;s implied that it shares the same scope as the scope it&#x27;s defined in (or some other implication like C#&#x27;s public). I&#x27;ll have to find a better way to word it because you&#x27;re right. Thank you for the discussion.