name space

The set of identifiers of different types whose names must be unique within the same scope. For example, the following types of identifiers have the same name space: cursor names, window names, form names, function names, global variable names, and report names. Because they share the same name space, none of them can have the same name: a cursor cannot have the same name as a window or a global variable; however, a cursor could have the same name as a local variable as long as the cursor did not appear within the same scope as the local variable.

See also identifier, naming conventions, scope of reference, variable.