On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 20:21:44 GMT, Mark Powers <mpow...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> First constructor doesn't set defaultName (or inputName), so there will be a 
>> error "might not have been initialized".
>
> I verified the error message happens when `defaultName` is final.

Yes but `defaultName` (like `prompt`) should never change once the object is 
constructed. So it seems inconsistent not to also mark it final (and if 
necessary, set it to a default value (`null`) in the constructors).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9664

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