Name: tb29552 Date: 07/30/97


Reported by: company - University College London (Computer Science Dept.)
                    email - ###@###.###

When adding a local variable to a method, I accidentaly declaired
it as static and final. Rather than report this as wrong, the
compiler kind of 'fell over'. eg:

==== ABug.java ===========================
{
    bar()
    {
        // confusion...
 
        static final int barfoo = 0;
        if (true)
        {
            // do something
        }
    }
}
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produces the following compiler errors:


ABug.java:6: '}' expected.
        {
         ^
ABug.java:9: Statement expected.
                static final int barfoo = 0;
                ^
ABug.java:10: Type expected.
                if (true)
                ^
3 errors

... since I had made edits in a few surrounding methods as well,
this took me a while to track down.

company - University College London (Computer Science Dept.) , email - ###@###.###
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