Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: Usefulness of "final" (Was: Re: Inserting In a List)
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:44:20 +0200
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <as5sfoFfdqmU1@mid.individual.net>
References: <d4ecae37-89d4-4747-a8ae-aea86fbbecf2@googlegroups.com> <19un43xj77bua.vw45l4e2wshi.dlg@40tude.net> <ntKdnSTV5a3le8fMnZ2dnUVZ8kmdnZ2d@bt.com> <as0ohhFb3opU1@mid.individual.net> <XuCdnUHfKZPInMHMnZ2dnUVZ7oudnZ2d@bt.com> <as360lFri5bU1@mid.individual.net> <qM6dnfaBydqB58HMnZ2dnUVZ8mmdnZ2d@bt.com> <m5js4x39je49.wr0biu59drh4.dlg@40tude.net> <kji61t$7u6$1@dont-email.me> <515cabb2$0$32111$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <kjib26$914$1@dont-email.me> <515cc192$0$32109$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <kjifih$2c4$1@dont-email.me> <515cc46b$0$32111$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <kjigtg$9bd$2@dont-email.me> <515cc8e5$0$32109$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <kjihmr$e2n$1@dont-email.me> <kjikcd$rqd$1@dont-email.me> <kjino8$frr$1@dont-email.me> <kjjreo$jaa$1@dont-email.me> <kjkama$2n7$1@dont-email.me>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: individual.net UcH9NbtGcaitNdwI8q5bkAUSdzV0ig8y40R0YN+/ex+gIMyis=
Cancel-Lock: sha1:1cwaw+/Att18QhlBdKPC2Zjh9aY=
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5
In-Reply-To: <kjkama$2n7$1@dont-email.me>
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130404-0, 04.04.2013), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:23308

On 04.04.2013 18:47, markspace wrote:
> On 4/4/2013 5:27 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> Perhaps the widely-held
>> ideas about "immutable" are not those you share.)
>
> Well, if we're all using different definitions of a term, talking about
> it is pretty tough.  Immutability is defined correctly in the JLS, at
> least for Java.  I think it would be most useful to use that term.

If it was I'd guess the terms "mutable" or "immutable" would surely show 
up in the index, but they don't - opposed to "final" which has several 
entries:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-0-index.html

No, the JLS does not define "immutable" - it just mentions it.

Cheers

	robert


-- 
remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end
http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/