Except the scope and the storage differences, are there any other major difference between instance and local variables in Java?
Except the scope and the storage differences, are there any other major difference between
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Except the scope and the storage differences, are there any other major difference between instance and local variables in Java?
One extra thing I can think of:
Instance variables are given default values, i.e., null if it’s an object reference, and 0 if it’s an int.
Local variables don’t get default values, and therefore need to be explicitly initialized (and the compiler usually complains if you fail to do this).