8. Visibility Rules

The rules defining the scope of declarations and the rules defining which identifiers are visible at various points in the text of the program are described in this chapter. The formulation of these rules uses the notion of a declarative region.

References: declaration, declarative region, identifier, scope, visibility.

Sub-topics:

  • 8.1 Declarative Region
  • 8.2 Scope of Declarations
  • 8.3 Visibility
  • 8.4 Use Clauses
  • 8.5 Renaming Declarations
  • 8.6 The Package Standard
  • 8.7 The Context of Overload Resolution
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