First Draft: Static Single Assignment

[Peter C]

On Saturday, 6 December 2025 at 04:19:12 UTC, Peter C wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 December 2025 at 04:16:59 UTC, Peter C wrote:
>>
>>..
>
> Correction to previous post:
>
> "final can protect a reference to an object, **without** 
> forcing immutablilty on the object itself.

argH! cannot edit posts!!!

another correction:

Foo f = new Foo();
f = new Foo(); // oops, lost the original object.

vs:

final Foo f = new Foo();
f = new Foo(); // Error: cannot modify `final f`