Review for CR 6728865 : Improved heuristics for Collections.disjoint()

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 18.12.2010 02:02, schrieb Rémi Forax:
> Otherwise, you declare some local variables final.
> Declaring a local variable as final doesn't appear in the generated bytecode.
> The usual convention for the source of the JDK is to use final
> in front of a local variable only when needed (inner class).

Not always!
Martin Buchholz wrote:

The "final" is there purely for software engineering reasons,
so that people don't make the common mistake of
modifying a field cached in a local, which would have no effect.


see: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2010-March/003887.html

-Ulf