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Re: Style Police (a rant)

Date	2011-09-11 11:05 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Style Police (a rant)
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On 9/11/2011 7:27 AM, Wanja Gayk wrote:
> In article<4e6c0fce$0$310$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, arne@vajhoej.dk
> says...
>> There are plenty of languages with the behavior you want (default
>> being val not var).
>>
>> I am a bit skeptical about trying to use a language in a significant
>> different way from what it was intended.
>
> Well in which was this was not intended?
> The final keyword is to mark those "variables" that never change, isn't
> it? I'm using it for exactly that.

Obviously the semantics of final is as it is.

But based on early examples coming out from SUN it seems very likely
that the keyword was intended for special cases where something had
to be final and not used everywhere except where something had to be not
final.

> And I still have to meet the colleague who could not read my code just
> because of some "final" keywords in it.

Sure they can read it.

They probably can read anything that is valid Java syntax.

That does not imply that the form is optimal.

Otherwise such things as coding conventions would
not exist.

Arne

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