Declarations and Initialization (DCL)

• DCL50-J. Use visually distinct identifiers
• DCL51-J. Do not shadow or obscure identifiers in subscopes
• DCL52-J. Do not declare more than one variable per declaration
• DCL53-J. Minimize the scope of variables
• DCL54-J. Use meaningful symbolic constants to represent literal values in program logic
• DCL55-J. Properly encode relationships in constant definitions
• DCL56-J. Do not attach significance to the ordinal associated with an enum
• DCL57-J. Avoid ambiguous overloading of variable arity methods
• DCL58-J. Enable compile-time type checking of variable arity parameter types
• DCL59-J. Do not apply public final to constants whose value might change in later releases
• DCL60-J. Avoid cyclic dependencies between packages
• DCL61-J. Do not use raw types