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Subject: Re: Assignment or Initialization?
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 20:57:33 -0500
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On 2/1/2016 7:23 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    In
>
> int i = 2;
> i = 3;
>
>    , there is an initialization and then an assignment.
>
>    What about
>
> final int i;
> i = 3;
>
>    ? Is »i = 3« an assignment or an initialization or both?
>
>    No, wait! I have looked up the JLS. It says that
>    »int i = 2;« is an assignment, too.
>
>        »14.4.2 ... If a declarator has an initializer, the
>         initializer is evaluated and its value is assigned
>         to the variable.«                         ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

Often studying JLS has little practical importance.

But for a question like what some valid Java syntax is correctly
called in Java then JLS is obviously the best source.

Arne