Scoping and Visibility Concepts
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Scoping is used to control what classes, methods, and properties are accessible by other objects.    Scoping is designed such that objects within increasingly larger sphere's are affected

Scoping is used to enable classes and their methods that are used by other objects to hide various methods from some objects but not others.

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