Illegal modifier for parameter y, only final is permitted

I'm getting error while declaring fields inside the main method......please tell me what is wrong in this

error:-
Illegal modifier for parameter y, only final is permitted


IfClause.java :-



Screenshot is attached also for your reference

You cannot set visibility scopes (private,...) to local variables.

You cannot set visibility scopes (private,...) to local variables.

as said by Christophe Verré
but why, may i know the reason behind this ?

Would it make sense ? What benefits would you get by making it private ? Private to whom ? The Local variables scope is already well defined : within the scope of the method it lives in.

Static also doesn't apply to local variables, unlike in C / C++.

Rob Prime wrote:Static also doesn't apply to local variables, unlike in C / C++.

I actually like this feature in C/C++. Granted it is not really a local variable. It's more like a global variable that is private to the function.... or maybe it's more like a local variable, whose scope doesn't end when the function returns.

Henry

Would it make sense ? What benefits would you get by making it private ? Private to whom ? The Local variables scope is already well defined : within the scope of the method it lives in.

as said by Christophe Verré

Thanks fro your response, i got it what you are saying.

You can't. Local variables are local. Meaning you can't access them through a global scope.

Now i want to know that if there is method say abc() which is public for instance like :-



[b]

From another class, i have created the object of this class and accessed this abc() method...success..
But why i'm not able to access the field x inside this method ?
I can access any field i.e. global variables only but why can't for local variables ? how can i put values in this local field through the object created ?
please tell me this briefly...

Vinod Vijay wrote:Now i want to know that if there is method say abc() which is public for instance like :-





From another class, i have created the object of this class and accessed this abc() method...success..
But why i'm not able to access the field x inside this method ?

To put it in a simple way: because when the method call returns, the variable no longer exists.

Vinod Vijay wrote:I can access any field i.e. global variables only but why can't for local variables ? how can i put values in this local field through the object created ?
please tell me this briefly...

A local variable is NOT a field. Have you ever heard of parameters?