The diagnostic for the following ill-formed program is potentially confusing, since the diagnostic only mentions that the fields is final (not that it is static), and initializing non-static final fields in the constructor is legal.

Something like the following might be make the error easier to understand:

> cannot assign a value to static final field g; did you mean to initialize it in a static initializer block or static field initializer?

```
public class T {
  private static final boolean g;
  T(boolean g) {
    this.g = g;
  }
}
```

$ javac T.java
T.java:4: error: cannot assign a value to final variable g
    this.g = g;
        ^
1 error