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Subject: Re: Scope of identifiers
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"James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> writes:
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> Yes, which is why the standard say so explicitly, as in 6.2.1p6, so that 
> people don't make the mistake of thinking that scopes that begin at 
> different locations are different scopes.
>
> If it weren't for that rule, no two identifiers would ever have the same 
> scope, because every identifier has a scope that begins in a different 
> location.

Except for label names.

[...]

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