Effectively final effective?

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Joshua Bloch <jjb at google.com> wrote:
>> I'd argue that adding the keyword is no more or less difficult than it was
>> when inner classes were introduced, and that modern IDEs will automatically
>> prompt you to change the variable to final with a single click if used in an
>> inner class.
>
> I agree, but most people hate this aspect of anonymous classes, and we can
> fix it. It's vaguely analogous to what we're doing with the "diamond
> operator" (<>) for parametrized type instance creation.

It isn't just the visual noise that people find so bothersome.  The
restriction itself is also bothersome, and harder to work around.