Why do you not declare several variables of the same type on the same line?

Question

Why is it bad practice to declare variables on one line?

e.g.

private String var1, var2, var3

instead of:

private          


        

Answer 1

Agree with edg, and also because it is more readable and easy for maintenance to have each variable on separate line. You immediately see the type, scope and other modifiers and when you change a modifier it applies only to the variable you want - that avoids errors.