>>>>> Dimitris Vyzovitis writes:
Dimitris> Chris Huebsch wrote:
>>
>>
>> this is not correct. With Java2 you can use deferred-initialization of
>> final-variables.
>>
>> That means that you can declare a: "final <type> <var>;" and do later a
>> "<var> = <value>;"
>>
Dimitris> That's a feature that was missing, but we still compile
Dimitris> under jdk117v1a...
The feature is called 'blank finals' and was introduced in Java 1.1
(see the Inner Classes Specification). Unfortunately javac 1.1 has
many problems with blank finals, javac 1.2 is much better at this.
Juergen
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