Name: laC46010 Date: 10/14/96


The Java Language Specification says very few words about "transient"
access modifier. Particularly it doesn't say anything about whether
are the following access modifier combinations of a class field legal or not:

transient final
transient static

However Java compiler doesn't allow such combinations and reports an error:
"Transient variables can't be final or static".

There is an assertion about interface fields [see 9.3 Field (Constant) Declarations]:

"A constant declaration in an interface must not include any of the modifiers
synchronized, transient, or volatile, or a compile-time error occurs."

It prohibits "transient final" fields for interfaces (but not for classes)
Besides it says nothing about "transient static" combination.

The specification should explicitly prohibit such combinations
for both classes and interfaces fields (or compiler should be fixed otherwise)

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