oop - Why there is no local static variable in Java?

Question

In C/C++ we use static local variables for maintaining a method's state. But why it is not supported in Java?

Yes, I can use an static field for this purpose. But isn't it a bit weird to create a field for maintaining only one method's state?

Answer 1

You have found the only solution.

Java dropped a number of complexities from C++, and this was one of them.

Static variables scoped to a function do nasty things to you in concurrency (e.g. strtok is a famously nasty one to use with pthreads, for exactly this reason).

In general, what you want is an object with state. The function in question should then have an object-level variable. Then you can create instances that each maintain state.

Much easier to understand/maintain/etc.

If you truly need to maintain state as a singleton, then static fields are it.