acc ss modifier in array declarations

[w.k.hasintha]

can arrays be declared private ,public or protected .we have compilation errors while doing so why does this happen ?

[Ali Gohar]

Where are you trying to declare array as private, public or protected. I mean at class level or method level.

Method level variables can't be declared as private, public, protected or static.

 class TestArray{
    public int[] array1;
    private int[] array2;
    protected int[] array3;
}   

Try to compile this, it will not raise error

[babudev Yam]

Array is also an object and so it cannot be treated like an field variable in a class.

Maybe thats reason.

[wise owen]

Array is also an object and so it cannot be treated like an field variable in a class.

Why? If it is true then Ali'scode will have compile time errors.

[babudev Yam]

Yeah correct

It doesnt make sense to give modifier to something declared in a method as it is local anyway !