Re: Which scope for variables being used in a loop?
dagarwal82@gmail.com wrote:
How about declaring "String customerName; String customerPhone;
String customerLocation;" outside the loop with String Buffer. I
mean :-
StringBuffer customerName
StringBuffer customerPhone
StringBuffer customerLocation
now even if you have 1tera billion records in the list , there will be
a single instance of these variables.
Actually, there won't. Variables don't have instances.
There is an engineering principle related to re-use of instances. Compare
public Foo do( Foo foo )
{
Foo fooToo = foo;
fooToo.setProperty( getAValue() );
return fooToo;
}
to
public Foo do( Foo foo )
{
Foo fooToo = foo.clone();
fooToo.setProperty( getAValue() );
return fooToo;
}
The latter produces two instances of Foo, the former uses only the one. The
number of variables is the same.
There are reasons to declare variables outside a loop, either because you need
a wider scope or syntactic reasons.
parallel loop control variables
for ( int i=0, Iterator iter = coll.iterator(); iter.hasNext(); ++i )
not allowed - declare one before the loop.
- Lew
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