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constant local variable
subject			fact

constant local variable	is a subtopic of Constants
	is allowed in Java 1.1 and later
	is not allowed in Java 1.0
	is a kind of constant
	is a kind of local variable
constant	can be referenced without the existence of an instance of a class
	has lifetime longer than the existence of an instance of the class
	has name a constant name
	to declare you use the 'final' keyword
local variable	can be declared anywhere in a method
	can be initialized by an assignment statement
	has a lifetime which is the time of one execution of its block
variable	can be accessed by other variables and methods in any class in the same package by default
	can contain different classes of objects depending on the type of the variable
	can contain only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type
	can refer to a particular object, several different objects during the execution of a program, or no object at all
	has purpose to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum
	has scope
	has part value
	is declared by giving the data type followed by the name of the variable
	is destroyed in the block where it is declared
	may have access modifier public or private or protected
	refers to a class or an object or a primitive datum
	should be as private as possible
access unit	has access mode
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional

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