👉 In programming, a "preclosing" is a statement that precedes another statement in a block of code. It's used to declare variables or functions and to specify how they should be accessed or modified. For example: ```python def my_function(): x = 5 print(x) ``` In this example, `my_function()` is declared as a function that takes no arguments, so it has no preclosing statement. A common practice in programming is to use "pre
