I can imagine 3 type of visibility for variables (but I think there are more):
Variable is used within a method and any changes of the value of this variable are not visible from outside of the method (so it is local for a particular method).
A variable is local to the class meaning that it is unvisible from outisde of the class. However, any method of the class can easily see and change value of this variable without necessity to give the variable in the list of arguments of methods (so it is kind of global within the class).
Variable can be accessed by "objectName.variableName".
How do I declare these different kinds of variables?
解决方案
1) Any variable declared in a method is only visible in that method. (method-local). The programmer has no choice in that.
2) Any variable declared with the modifier private is visible only from within instances of the class it is delared in.
3) public variables can be accessed from any class with object.variable; protected variables can be accessed in this way from subclasses only; private variables can be accesses in this way only within instances of the class the variable is declared in.
However: exposing class members (variables) to other classes is bad practise, and access should be enabled using methods, such as:
public class MyClass {
private int myInt;
public int getMyInt() {
return myInt;
}
public void setMyInt(int newInt) {
myInt = newInt;
}
}