6.11 Scope of Declarations
You’ve seen declarations of various Java entities, such as classes, methods, variables and parameters. Declarations introduce names that can be used to refer to such Java entities. The scope of a declaration is the portion of the program that can refer to the declared entity by its name. Such an entity is said to be “in scope” for that portion of the program. This section introduces several important scope issues.
The basic scope rules are as follows:
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The scope of a parameter declaration is the body of the method in which the declaration appears.
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The scope of a local-variable declaration is from the point at which the declaration appears to the end of that block.
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The scope of a local-variable declaration that ...
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