posted 19 years ago
Simply put, there's just nobody else out there that has access to the variable once you've defined it locally.
Now, if you did something crazy like telling everybody else (threads) in your program about "o", then you would have a possible synchronization issue. But until that happens, local variables are nothing to worry about.
Nathaniel Stodard<br />SCJP, SCJD, SCWCD, SCBCD, SCDJWS, ICAD, ICSD, ICED