From 065efdd61757fa72547151ccd423cb4c28cf8db4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jose Antonio Pereiro Morejon
 <44244693+josePereiro@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 00:35:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add variable shadowing link to wikipedia (#36930)

---
 doc/src/manual/variables-and-scoping.md | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/manual/variables-and-scoping.md b/doc/src/manual/variables-and-scoping.md
index 4c013d8f067ce..95ce931d872bb 100644
--- a/doc/src/manual/variables-and-scoping.md
+++ b/doc/src/manual/variables-and-scoping.md
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ eligible to be the scope of some set of variables. The scope of a variable canno
 set of source lines; instead, it will always line up with one of these blocks. There are two main
 types of scopes in Julia, *global scope* and *local scope*. The latter can be nested. There is also
 a distinction in Julia between constructs which introduce a "hard scope" and those which only
-introduce a "soft scope", which affects whether shadowing a global variable by the same name is
-allowed or not.
+introduce a "soft scope", which affects whether
+[shadowing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_shadowing)
+a global variable by the same name is allowed or not.
 
 ### [Scope constructs](@id man-scope-table)