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Question 50 (2024):

Submission reference: IN3695

in my assignment 2 project some private fields say: make '<something>' final is this something i should ignore for now or should i look into that.

Answer 50:

You can accept the suggestion if the field is one that won't be changed by any of the methods in the class. For instance, if it doesn't have a setter. A final field is one whose value is fixed for the life of the object.

Keywords: final-field