From 6fc766058bd163744fb0933f2fe5db89664180d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: acolyer <acolyer>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 14:13:09 +0000
Subject: fix for Bugzilla Bug 48389  	Cannot assign to final fields in
 intertype constructors.

---
 docs/progGuideDB/semantics.xml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'docs/progGuideDB')

diff --git a/docs/progGuideDB/semantics.xml b/docs/progGuideDB/semantics.xml
index 379cb1cb2..da0b772b0 100644
--- a/docs/progGuideDB/semantics.xml
+++ b/docs/progGuideDB/semantics.xml
@@ -1930,6 +1930,14 @@
         an error for <replaceable>OnType</replaceable> to be an interface.
       </para>
 
+	  <para>
+	    Inter-type declared constructors cannot be used to assign a
+	    value to a final variable declared in <replaceable>OnType</replaceable>.
+	    This limitation significantly increases the ability to both understand
+	    and compile the <replaceable>OnType</replaceable> class and the
+	    declaring aspect separately.
+	  </para>
+
       <para>
         Note that in the Java language, classes that define no constructors
         have an implicit no-argument constructor that just calls
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