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If we inspect the preceding example of procedure Add, we notice that the role of the variable i is strictly confined to the procedure body. This inherent locality should be expressed explicitly, and can be done by declaring i inside the procedure declaration. i thereby becomes a local variable.
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Wirth, N. (1985). The concept of locality. In: Programming in Modula-2. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96878-5_12
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