Name: ###@###.### Date: 09/05/96

compiler do not permit to declare an exception parameter
             of the same name as a variable from the embracing block
             though there is no prohibition in the Java Language Specification.
             Moreover such declaration is in effect only within a catch block.
             So it would be reasonably to suppose that it would screen the
             declaration of the same name variable from the embracing block.

Tests: compilation of the following test

public class test
{
public static void main(String argv[])
{
float zero = 0.0f, e;

try {
e = zero / zero;
} catch (ArithmeticException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}

produces such error diagnostics:

novo40% javac test.java
test.java:9: Variable 'e' is already defined in this method.
} catch (ArithmeticException e) {
^
1 error

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