Declaring variables inside or outside of a loop

Question

Why does the following work fine?

String str;
while (condition) {
    str = calculateStr();
    .....
}

But this one is said to be dangerou

Answer 1

I think the best resource to answer your question would be the following post:

Difference between declaring variables before or in loop?

According to my understanding this thing would be language dependent. IIRC Java optimises this, so there isn't any difference, but JavaScript (for example) will do the whole memory allocation each time in the loop.In Java particularly I think the second would run faster when done profiling.