Question

I am having a static method .In the method when I decalare a variable , it was showing an error in eclipse saying that the variable should be decalared as final.
Can I know the reason for this , y should a variable in a static method be declared as final? I am writng an Android application where I should pass as an argument current Context of that application. So, when I pass the current context to the method and trying to copy it in a local variable , I am getting this error saying that the variable should be declared as final.
my method is like this:

public static void myfunc(Context ctx, int a)  
{                                     
  Context myctx=ctx;                      
}     

error is showing at line where Context myctx=ctx; is declared and asking me to declare it as final.

Answer 1

Not necessarily. You can have a non final variable inside the static function.

Classic example:

public static void main(String args[])
{
   int i = 10;
}