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constant local variable comparison table

Subject	declare anywhere in	have	have lifetime	initialize by	is a kind of	is a synonym of	is a subtopic of	have name	reference without	declare you	has definition	allow
constant		comment if it is non-obvious	longer than the existence of an instance of the class		variable	final variable	Constants	a constant name	the existence of an instance of a class	use the 'final' keyword	A variable with a value that never changes
local variable	a method	a lifetime which is the time of one execution of its block		an assignment statement	variable		Variables and Data Types				A variable that is declared in a method
constant local variable	a method	a lifetime which is the time of one execution of its block	longer than the existence of an instance of the class	an assignment statement	local variable		Constants	a constant name	the existence of an instance of a class	use the 'final' keyword		in Java 1.0

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