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variable comparison table

Subject	be accessible to	declare anywhere in	have	pass by	be a member of	have lifetime	initialize by	refer directly to	is a synonym of	is a subtopic of	have name	have purpose	reference without	declare you	refer indirectly to	use	have the same name as	has definition	is partitioned into	inherit by	use by	contain
constant			comment if it is non-obvious			longer than the existence of an instance of the class			final variable	Constants	a constant name	to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum	the existence of an instance of a class	use the 'final' keyword				A variable with a value that never changes				only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type
local variable		a method	a lifetime which is the time of one execution of its block				an assignment statement			Variables and Data Types		to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum						A variable that is declared in a method				only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type
member variable	the code in its class	a class outside of a method	comment if it is non-obvious		a class or an object		an assignment statement		field			to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum							class variable, instance variable			only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type
operand			comment if it is non-obvious						argument of an operator	Operators		to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum						An input to an operator				only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type
parameter			comment if it is non-obvious	value			calling the method or constructor or exception handler		formal parameter	Variables and Data Types		to transmit a primitive datum or object reference to a method or constructor					a member variable	A variable that transmits a primitive datum or object reference to a method or constructor				only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type
pointer			comment if it is non-obvious							Variables and Data Types		to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum						A variable that is used to store an address				only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type
private variable			comment if it is non-obvious									to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum						A variable declared with the private access modifier		subclasses		only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type
public variable			comment if it is non-obvious									to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum						A variable declared with the public access modifier		subclasses		only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type
variable declared as a non-primitive data type			comment if it is non-obvious							Variables and Data Types		to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum			its value which is an object	the name of a class as its type					calling methods or accessing the object's instance variables	an instance of a class
variable declared as primitive data type			comment if it is non-obvious					its value		Variables and Data Types		to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum										object in the sense that its contents is not an instance of any class
variable with no access modifier			default access mode							Variables and Data Types		to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum										only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type

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