Scope

Sections are denoted by the § symbol followed by the section title. Subsections can be created by repeating the § symbol.

§ Section Title
§§ Subsection Title
§§§ Sub-subsection Title

This mechanism creates lexical scope.

Scope gives us the fine grain needed to encode legal expressions like "For the purposes of sections 2 and 3(a), tomato means ..."

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