Why are variables not local in case statements?

Question

I recently add another menu item to an android java app and was suprised that Eclipse said that variable from the previous case:break were not local (So I\'ve just added a s

Answer 1

You're right that at most one will execute, but a case does not create a new scope. You can manually create a block with its own scope.

case foo:
    {
       int var = ...
    }
    break;

case bar:
    {
       int var = ...
    }
    break;