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Scope minimization helps developers to avoid common programming errors, improves code readability by tying together connecting the declaration and actual use of a variable, and improves maintainability because unused variables are more easily detected and removed.

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Minimize the scope of variables where possible, for example, by declaring loop indexes indices within the for statement.

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public class Scope {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { //contains declaration
      // Do operations
    }
  }
}

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