Name: ngR10089 Date: 04/29/2001



JLS, 2nd Ed. "16.2.8 switch Statements" says:
    "V is [un]assigned before the first block-statement of any
     block-statement-group other than the first iff V is [un]assigned
     after the switch expression and V is [un]assigned after the last
     block-statement of the preceding block-statement-group."

Java compiler jdk1.4.0beta-b62 permits to assign value to local blank
final variable twice. It compiles the test below without error message.

> java -version
java version "1.4.0-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-beta-b62)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-beta-b62, mixed mode)

> javac -d . test.java
> java -Xfuture p.test
case2 10
default 14
>

-----------------test.java------------------
package p;

public class test {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        System.exit(run(args) + 95/*STATUS_TEMP*/);
    }
 
    public static int run(String args[]) {
        int c = 6;
        final int a1;

        switch (c%(a1=4)) {
            case 1: c+=1;
                    break;
            case 2: c+=a1; System.out.println("case2 "+c);
            default: a1=4;
                     c+=a1; System.out.println("default "+c);
                     break;
        }
        return 2/*STATUS_FAILED*/;
    }
}
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