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Java

Posted by Roy Korenblit
Roy Korenblit
1,209 Points

Why aren't we setting the member variables as final?

When we built the Treet.java class, we made the member variables immutable by not exposing a way to change them. But, why not just use the final keyword as learned in the java objects course?

Thanks for any answers!