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Re: Java finality

From: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
To: tromey at redhat dot com
Cc: Chris Burdess <dog at bluezoo dot org>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:35:11 +0100
Subject: Re: Java finality
References: <37205c573a4682e65cfcd187f8be18e0@bluezoo.org> <m37jlfu9ls.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:13 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> "final" was always weird, really.  I've seen some texts out there say
> that blank finals could only be set in <init> or <clinit>... but this
> contradicts what many compilers actually do.  And afaik no runtime
> ever checked that a blank final was only assigned once.

Apparently the MSJVM did.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2000-10/msg00128.html
(Which also contains some quotes on various specs and interpretations.)

Cheers,

Mark

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