subscope

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ scope

Noun

subscope (plural subscopes)

1. (computing) An inner scope contained within an outer scope.
   • 2008, Robert C. Seacord, The Cert C Secure Coding Standard:

     Do not reuse variable names in subscopes

   • 2010, Kai Sachs, Ilia Petrov, Pablo Guerrero, From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More, page 286:

     Lastly, a more powerful aggregation operation exploits the hierarchical relation between a scope and its subscopes.