Override your scope access to containing blocks by reusing an identifier in a nested block

  

SQL>
SQL> DECLARE
  2    current_block VARCHAR2(10) := 'Outer';
  3    outer_block   VARCHAR2(10) := 'Outer';
  4  BEGIN
  5    dbms_output.put_line('[current_block]['||current_block||']');
  6    DECLARE
  7
  8      current_block VARCHAR2(10) := 'Inner';
  9    BEGIN
 10      dbms_output.put_line('[current_block]['||current_block||']');
 11      dbms_output.put_line('[outer_block]['||outer_block||']');
 12    END;
 13    dbms_output.put_line('[current_block]['||current_block||']');
 14  END;
 15  /
[current_block][Outer]
[current_block][Inner]
[outer_block][Outer]
[current_block][Outer]

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