several questions

[Saaa]

Making it:
It's a global variable that can be accessed/used only inside, the set of 
names (variables, etc) that you can see and use from the code inside the 
function, aka namespace of that function.

Does it contradict with:
A static variable inside a function (which I did not cover in my last
post), will keep its value after the function has exited, and even when
it's being called again.

I can't tell :D

>
>> What exactly is the namespace of a function?
>
> Informally it's the set of names (variables, etc) that you can see and use 
> from the code inside the function. (Probably it's a bit more complex than 
> that, but the base is that one.)
>
> Bye,
> bearophile