Effectively final effective?

[Mark Thornton]

Neal Gafter wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Yet would not many developers be surprised to discover that they 
couldn't change an apparently ordinary local variable because it had 
been captured by a lambda (or anonymous inner class) some lines previously.

Mark