Ok, if declared as final and static, variables behave just like constants and
can be used in constructors.
I don't know how it happened the first time that it didn't work, but after
another test it's confirmed, they work.
With an afterthough, it would have been a big mistake in the java languag
The java language specification is a little difficult to follow on final static
fields.
The best place to look is 13.4.8 - Binary Compatability. This says
"We call a field that is static, final, and initialized with a compile-time
constant expression a primitive constant."
and it is impl
At 11:05 AM 7/16/99 +0200, Kontorotsui wrote:
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>On 14-Jul-99 Michael Sinz wrote:
>> The reason is that until the constructor is called, no instance data
>> can be used. Note that you did not make this static final but rather
>> final. This means there must be actual instance data to access this
