method inside main method

[Asanga Aux]

Hey,

Why cant we declare a method inside the main method and call it?

class Test{

public static void main(String args []){

method("A");


void method (String s){
System.out.println(s);
}

}
}

why its giving illegal start of expression ?

Thank You.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

inside a main method ,you can declare a method(static) . but you cant define(implement) a method.

Hope this helps

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

and welcome to javaranch

[Jesper de Jong]

Welcome to JavaRanch.

Because it is simply not possible in Java to define methods inside methods. It's just not part of the language's syntax.