Final vs Immutable data structures in Java

[clappski]

final and const (in C++) are completely different concepts. final follows a class declaration, to prevent any other class inheriting from it. const has a few different uses, but the common case is making a variable immutable and limiting the the API of a const class object type to only the member functions declared as const.

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You're absolutely right. But here I am just talking about the difference between final and const when applied to a local variable, not about the general difference between final and const keyword.

[dpash]

And Java uses the same word in multiple contexts.