I'm planning to leave this VOTE and DISCUSSION open until Wednesday 2400 PM UTC.
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 12:55 PM Kirk Lund <kl...@apache.org> wrote: > Our coding standard and our Design Decisions does NOT require using final > on parameters and local variables. > > Please do NOT request that I add or keep final on parameters or local > variables unless the community votes and decides that every parameter and > local variable should require the final keyword. I coded this way in the > past and I found that it resulted in noisy code with no benefit. We can > argue about using this keyword all you want but the fact is I'm against it, > and I will not embrace it unless this community decides that we need to use > it. > > Using final on instance or class fields does have a concurrency benefit > and I support that only. > > If you want to add final to every single parameter and local var in the > Geode codebase, then now is your chance to vote on it. Please vote. > > Thanks, > Kirk > >
