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

Matthew is right - the whole switch statement has one scope for any variables declared directly within it. You can add more braces as per Matthew's answer - but it would almost certainly be better to extra the case bodies out as methods. It looks like they're doing rather a lot to be included "inline" like that.

Note that the scoping rules here aren't specific to Android - they're Java's scoping rules.