It's instead outside of them and, by convention, at the top of the file so that I can access it anywhere, whether or not this is a good thing, remains to be seen.

它在函数的外面，按照惯例，在文件的顶端，所以我可以在任何地方使用它,不管这是不是好事情，拭目以待。

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