Beyond the defensive programming aspect I found it interesting that there are actually performance gains in concurrent systems when variables are declared final.
-Eric
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Found this article yesterday when trying to explain some of the pros of
marking variables final in Java:
http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/java/final-keyword.shtml
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