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local variable comparison table

Subject	refer to	declare anywhere in	declare by	have	have lifetime	be	initialize by	have scope	is a kind of	is a subtopic of	have syntax rule	have name	have purpose	destroy in	access by	have access modifier	reference without	declare you	have access mode	has part	contain	allow
constant local variable	a class or an object or a primitive datum	a method	giving the data type followed by the name of the variable	a lifetime which is the time of one execution of its block	longer than the existence of an instance of the class	as private as possible	an assignment statement		local variable	Constants	bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional	a constant name	to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum	the block where it is declared	other variables and methods in any class in the same package by default	public or private or protected	the existence of an instance of a class	use the 'final' keyword		value	only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type	in Java 1.0

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