alleryWhat term describes a local variable masking an outer one?
AMethod overriding
BVirtual dispatch
CThread decoupling
DVariable shadowing
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Variable shadowing
Masking an outer variable with an identically named inner variable is shadowing.
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