I am a C++ and MFC programmer. I love C++ and MFC!!! Nonetheless, I have to take either Java or Visual Basic for a degree at my college. So, I decided to take Java for the summer. Java is very, very ...

If the final value is (or could be) assigned at declaration, then the C keyword const suffices. My own favorite candidate for compiler enhancement is a message, "warning: 'const' omitted". The ...