declaring methods

[anish jain]

why cannot we declare a method inside a method in java?

[Paul Sturrock]

If you could create it, how would you call this method?

[Martin Vanyavchich]

What would be practical use of such method?

You can make method inner classes and have methods defined there ...

[David Newton]

Paul Sturrock wrote:If you could create it, how would you call this method?

(Same way as any other method :)

[David Newton]

Martin Vanyavchich wrote:What would be practical use of such method?

Scope overriding.

[Paul Sturrock]

David Newton wrote:

Paul Sturrock wrote:If you could create it, how would you call this method?

(Same way as any other method :)

How could you call a public method that is a member of another method?

[David Newton]

It would be method-local, just like in a nested JavaScript function.

[Paul Sturrock]

Wouldn't that restrict the language? I'd have to implement the same "inner" method redundantly accross a bunch of classes. OK it works with a weakly typed scripting language but I can't see how it would give any benefit to a strongly typed language?

[David Newton]

I didn't claim it would be a benefit--just how it would work. I think it'd be a bad idea in Java.

[Michael Angstadt]

You can do that sort of thing in Scala.

[Paul Sturrock]

David Newton wrote:I didn't claim it would be a benefit--just how it would work. I think it'd be a bad idea in Java.

Fair enough. I just couldn't think of any purpose of this either.