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On 9/3/2015 3:33 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> writes:
>> This book is award winning and has free version:
>> http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/
>
>    Recently someone claimed that "Thinking in Java 3",
>    contained this sentence:
>
> |If you're defining an anonymous inner class and want to use an
> |object that's defined outside the anonymous inner class, the
> |compiler requires that the argument reference be final, like
> |the argument to dest().
>
>    Here, Eckel writes:
>
>        »object that's defined«.
>
>    Objects, however, are not "defined", they are /created/ at
>    run-time. Names of reference variables are being /declared/
>    in the source text, not "defined".

Yes yes yes.

But that short of language terminology finesses are utterly
irrelevant for beginners learning the language.

Arne