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Robert Klemme wrote:
> You left out an important part of the sentence:
>
> "If a final field is initialized to a compile-time constant IN THE
> FIELD DECLARATION, [...] uses of that final field are replaced at
> compile time with the compile-time constant." (uppercase by me)
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/memory.html#17.5.3
>
> This is not applicable in the "properties" case because final fields
> are NOT initialized in the field declaration:
>
>    public enum Prop {
>
>      A(true, true), B(true, false), C(false, true);
>
>      private final boolean a;
>
>      private final boolean b;
>
>      Prop(boolean a, boolean b) {
>        this.a = a;
>        this.b = b;
>      }
>
>    // ...
> }

Excellent point.

And yet:

37: tableswitch   { // 3 to 3
                      3: 67
                default: 56
'3' is how it expanded 'kount' in the 'switch' in my example (where 'kount' is 
final and set to 3).

and

public void run();
     Code:
        0: aload_0
        1: getfield      #21  // Field randy:Ljava/util/Random;
        4: iconst_4
        5: invokevirtual #30  // Method java/util/Random.nextInt:(I)I
        8: istore_1

for
  public void run()
  {
    int value = randy.nextInt( kount + 1 );

Note that the compiler DOES replace the reference with a constant.  Looks like 
I was right after all.

-- 
Lew
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