local scope in Java

Question

Why is it that curly braces do not define a separate local scope in Java? I was expecting this to be a feature common to the main curly brace languages (C, C++, Java, C#).<

Answer 1

It's forgotten in Java but I think Java is wrong because in ALL "block structured" languages it is authorized to do this (not only in C++ but also in Pascal, ADA, C, and so on...) and sometime we want to hide a variable of the enclosing block.