William Thompson wrote:
Good article, I particularly like the bit about "Enforce Composition
over Inheritance"...and the impact it has on forcing us to thinking
about explicitly designing extension points.  Scott has done a real
nice job of this with CAS 3 code base.

Also take a look at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hardcorejv/chapter/ch02.pdf

 George
Bill

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Eric Dalquist
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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

 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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