static nested scope

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

static nested scope
static nested scoping

   <programming> Where the {scope} of an {identifier} is fixed at
   {compile-time} to be the smallest {block} ({begin}/end,
   {function}, or {procedure} body) containing the identifier's
   {declaration}.  This means that an identifier declared in some
   block is only accessible within that block and from procedures
   declared within it.

   This term is used in the {Python} community.

   Compare {lexical scope}.

   (2002-02-18)