Meaning of Extern | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
2. In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.
3. A day-scholar.
4. Outward form or part; exterior.

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Examples

“Finally, get rid of the two function declarations and two externs that we added at the top of TEFIL.CPP so that we could support file_open().”

“This is probably the big thing with C++, the more you can avoid global concepts and nasty externs the better, an object/class should be totally self-contained.”

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