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68: Mainline

Your variable-declaration statements do not need to lie before all other statements. Accordingly, most programmers prefer to declare each variable close to its first use, as in the following example:

public class Demonstrate {
 public static void main (String argv[]) {
  int result, script = 6;       
  result = script;
  int acting = 9;               
  result = result + acting;
  int direction = 8;            
  result = result + direction;   
  System.out.print("The rating of the movie is "); 
  System.out.println(result); 
 } 
}