static final int, but constructor with (final int) arguments

From:
Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:11:54 +0200
Message-ID:
<87sju7w4o5.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA>
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Hi,

I've got a class constructor which takes two final int arguments; they
come from the CLI and this one is parsed only once, at the beginning
of the programming. Once they have been parsed from the CLI, errors
handled, etc., they never change.

During the program's execution, I need to create two objects from this
class. These objects thus inherit some variables that need to be static final
int. However, the final is not accepted because, in the constructor, I
evidently define one of these variable's values.

To take an example, consider the class foo. You know that

==
public class foo {
private static final int c;

public Foo(final int a, final int b) {
c = 2*a;

}

}
==

will produce an error because c cannot be modified. I can understand
it, and I thus tried to put the final keyword in the constructor, just
before `c', but to no avail. I tried various combinations, using
static blocks, etc., but nothing more.

Do you have any reasonable way to achieve this?

Thanks.
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