Most programming languages support global variables, but they tend to do it in different ways. For example, PHP uses the global keyword to access a variable declared outside any function: ...

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For example: Score = 0 - this would assign the value 0 to the variable score. Some programming languages, such as Python, enable variables to be declared and assigned a value in the same line of code.