Do we really need const?

[Matti Niemenmaa]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> There's of course Java.  Lots of enterprise software is written in Java,
> and yet Java does not have const.

Java has a limited form of const in final, which allows for both compile-time
constants and variables which can only be assigned to once.

See the "variables" and "fields" sections here:
http://renaud.waldura.com/doc/java/final-keyword.shtml

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