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Feb 26, 2017 class method design

A use-case for local class declaration

One of the first things one learns when starting with Java development is how to declare a class into its own file. Potential later stages include: Declaring multiple classes into the same file - with at most one of them publicDeclaring static nested classes or inner classesDeclaring anonymous (inner) classes But this doesn’t stop there: the JLS is a trove full of surprises. I recently learned classes can be declared inside any block, including methods. This is called local class declarat

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