>> Dunno about other versions of BASIC, but in BBC BASIC I'm pretty sure
>> you had the "LOCAL" keyword to do just that.
>
> If that's actually true, that would make it usefully more sophisticated 
> than, say, Spectrum or C64 BASIC.

A little googling shows this to actually be true.  The following link is 
part of the BBC Micro user guide (back in the days when you actually got a 
useful book with computers) - scroll down to "LOCAL":

http://central.kaserver5.org/Kasoft/Typeset/BBC/KeyL.html

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