effect:
When the global variable name and local variable names are the same, the same name in the local variable effect global variable domain
usage:
Prepend "::"
example:
#include<iostream> using namespace std; int was = 1 ; int main () { int was ; was = 25 ; COUT << " local variable var: " << var << endl; cout << " global variables var: " << :: var << endl; }