So, slightly off topic, but one thing from C that I really miss in other languages is subroutine-local static variables. It always annoys me in Java or C# that

So, slightly off topic, but one thing from C that I really miss in other languages is subroutine-local static variables. It always annoys me in Java or C# that you can't really make a static variable that's scoped to a single method or function, you have to scope them to the entire class. It's common enough that a private static variable is only needed in a single method or function, so why not do it the way C does it?