Re: More Flexible "final"

From:
Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:33:56 -0700
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Christian wrote:

Stefan Ram schrieb:

Christian <fakemail@xyz.de> writes:

Often in my code I find situation when it would have been
helpful/produced nicer code if I were able to change a final
variable while being in the constructor .

  If this happens so often, then it
  should be easy to post an example.


here an example for my last recent occurence..

/**
 * decorates a normal NC Block that is a TreeCoding Block
 */
public TreeCodingBlock(INCBlock block, TreeCodingBlockmanager manager) {
  this.decorated = block;
  this.manager = manager;
  int firstPositionUnequalZero = 0;
  int lastPositionUnequalZero = 0 ;
  ByteVector linearfactors = block.getLinearFactors();

  for (int i=0; i < linearfactors.length(); i++) {
    if (linearfactors.getElement(i) != 0) {
      firstPositionUnequalZero = i;
      break;
    }
  }
  for (int i = linearfactors.length()-1 ; i >= 0 ; i-- ) {
    if (linearfactors.getElement(i) != 0) {
      lastPositionUnequalZero = i;
      break;
    }
  }
  this.firstPositionUnequalZero = firstPositionUnequalZero;
  this.lastPositionUnequalZero = lastPositionUnequalZero;
}

Well I can remember worse examples.. here it adds just four lines of
code. Though four lines that seem unecessary.

Try refactoring to replace temp with query:
private static int findFirstNonZeroPosition(ByteVector bv);
private static int findLastNonZeroPosition(ByteVector bv);

Actually, better yet, add those methods as instance methods to
ByteVector if possible.

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