Declaration Contexts and Default Access Levels

This article tells which declared elements you can use in other declared elements, and their access levels.

Declaration contexts

The declaration context of a programming element is the part of the code in which it is declared. Frequently this is a different programming element, which is also known as the container element.

The levels of declaration contexts follow:

• Namespace level – in a namespace (but not in a module, class, structure, or trait)
• Module level – in a module, class, structure, or trait (but not in a procedure or block)
• Procedure level – in a procedure or block (for example, If or While)

Access levels

The table that follows shows the default access levels for many declared elements, given their declaration contexts.

See also

• Access Levels