3 Types of Variable Scope in Java

[novel gulch]

https://www.codecademy.com/article/variable-scope-in-java
Why is block level scope not included with method level scope?
They seem rather similar to me, if it's in regards to header and body for both

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[true trail]

Kinda true, as far as the language bothers to define, they're both just local variables

It's just it's not super obvious that a local variable declared inside nested { and } is not visible from outside these { and }

And variables declared as part of a loop's ( and ) conditionals is visible only in these conditionals and inside the loop

[novel gulch]

so anything written in () or {} cannot "leave" to a higher parent scope so to speak

the only exception, being return?

[true trail]

return doesn't expose the variable. Only its value.

Also beware with the (), that's only the for() constructs that can declare variables that way. Lambdas too, in a way, but they work rather differently.

[novel gulch]

myMethod(int myInt){ System.out.println(myint); }

does this count as "declaring the variable", myInt?

or this is merely declaring a parameter, which is different from declaring a variable?