local class

English

Noun

local class (plural local classes)

1. (object-oriented programming) A class that is declared in the body of a function, and can only be referred to in the rest of the function.
   • 2008 December 19, Khalid A Mughal, Rolf W Rasmussen, A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification: A Comprehensive Primer‎^[1], Pearson Education:

     A local class is an inner class that is defined in a block.

Translations

class declared in the body of a function

• Finnish: paikallinen luokka
• French: classe locale (fr) f