In your example of:

Dim N As Long ' N is declared outside the block
' and has procedure scope.
For I = 1 To 10
N = N + Incr(I)
Next
W = Base ^ N ' N is visible outside the block but I is not.

demonstrating scope, since "option explicit" is the default, wouldn't the variable I have necessarily been declared prior to its use, and thus, have scope outside of the loop?

Is the following:

for (dim I as Integer = 1 ) to 10

allowed?

Thank you and my apoligies for the clumsiness of my posting techniques.

Dan