Question

please consider this code :

1)public static class MyClass
2){
3)    public static DateTime MyMethod(DateTime dt)
4)    {
5)         DateTime temp = new DateTime();
6)         temp = dt.AddDays(1);
7)         return temp;
8)    }
9)}

Does temp variable has instance per any calls to MyMethod? or because it is in a static method inside static class just one instance of temp variable allocate in memory?

thanks

Answer 1

temp is neither a static nor an instance variable, it is a local variable. It absolutely does not matter whether the method in which it is declared is static or not: the variable’s scope starts at the point of its declaration, and ends at the closing curly brace } of the scope in which it is declared. Each executing thread that goes through MyMethod gets its own copy of temp, which is invisible anywhere outside the variable’s scope.