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What does final actually mean?
This is confusing me in a rather big way. If you declare something final, how does that affect it?
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>> a variable that is final means that it's value cannot be changed once you assign it.
That's what was confusing me. Because I see a final JTable I assume you can't change anything in that JTable, but then in practice I see that the JTable's fields can still change.
I get it now. You can change anything in the final object, you just can't point that variable to a new object.
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>> a variable that is final means that it's value cannot be changed once you assign it.
That's what was confusing me. Because I see a final JTable I assume you can't change anything in that JTable, but then in practice I see that the JTable's fields can still change.
I get it now. You can change anything in the final object, you just can't point that variable to a new object.
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> You can change anything in the final object, you just can't point that variable to a new object.
Exactly, you can change the values but not the reference to the JTable :)
Exactly, you can change the values but not the reference to the JTable :)
a variable that is final means that it's value cannot be changed once you assign it. A method that is final means that it cannot be overriden and a class that is final means that it cannot be extended by any other class.
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