Minor wording issue around effectively final definition

Srikanth S Adayapalam srikanth_sankaran at in.ibm.com
Tue Feb 12 06:22:21 PST 2013


> From: Dan Smith <daniel.smith at oracle.com>
> Subject: Re: Minor wording issue around effectively final definition

> The intent is to cover both compound and simple assignments.
> 
> The first sentence says that if you never assign to a variable, it's
> effectively final.
> 
> The second sentence says that if you _do_ assign to a variable, it 
> may still be effectively final if the assignment is the _first_ 
assignment.

Thanks, it looks fine. The apparent contradiction was due to my having 
missed
out the phrase "in addition". Sorry for the SIGINT.

Srikanth. 
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