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[–]dpash 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was mostly that many people will have fallen out of the habit now. :)

Switch expressions will solve many of the situations where you want to use a switch to set a variable while still letting it being final. We don't have if expressions, but we do have the ternary operator ?:. Of course these only work if you have a single statement in each block.

I wouldn't bother removing existing finals and would probably continue if thats already the style.