static variables

[Puspender Tanwar]

why static variables can't be declared inside a method, not even inside a static method?

[Paweł Baczyński]

Because a static variable would not make any sense inside a method.

[Dan Drillich]

Hi Puspender,

why cant we declare static variables inside a function body even the function is static? speaks about it.

I like this part -

In Java, static means that it's a variable/method of a class, it belongs to the whole class but not to one of its certain objects. This means that static keyword can be used only in a 'class scope'.

Regards,
Dan