Variable scoping in Kaffe and JDK

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar  1, 1999, jbl at cordelia.res.cmu.edu wrote:

> If I declare a variable in one case block of a switch
> statement, does Java let me use the same variable name
> in another block of the same switch statement?

Nope.  Pizza (Kaffe's javac) accepts it but it is wrong.

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