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Java7's try-with-resources is great and all, but I can't wrap my head around why it is required to include the declaration of the resource in the try statement. My gut says the following should be possible: CloseableResource thing; try (thing = methodThatCreatesAThingAndDoesSomeSideEffect()) { // do some interesting things } thing.collectSomeStats(); Alas, this results in a syntax error (cryptically expecting a ; ). Moving the type definition/declaration into the try statement works, which of course moves thing into the corresponding scope. I can figure out how to work around this when I want more from my AutoClosable than getting closed, I'm interested in why the compiler requires it like this.
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