You can declare local variables within any method. The example code below declares a local variable in the AlarmClock snooze() method: public class AlarmClock { public void snooze() { ...

JEP 429, Extent-Local Variables (Incubator), was promoted from its JEP Draft 8263012 to Candidate status. This incubating JEP, under the umbrella of Project Loom, proposes enabling the sharing of ...