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Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:33:10 -0400
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Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> They can be *declared* in functions

Yes. You said they couldn't be!

> but they behave as globals. For examples, they cannot refer to local parameters
 > of the functions.

Correct for C++. Java local classes may refer to constant local parameters
and variables of the defining scope, but Java does this by cheating; the
local class gets copies of these when it is created.

> They are global classes, whose visibility is restricted to a  function.

Yes (for a suitable definition of global). This does not make the
ability to declare them locally any less useful.