Use of uninitialized final field - with/without 'this.' qualifier

Question

Can someone explain to me why the first of the following two samples compiles, while the second doesn\'t? Notice the only difference is that the first one explicitly qualifi

Answer 1

I assume you refer to the behaviour in Eclipse. (As stated as comment a compile with javac works).

I think this is an Eclipse problem. It has its own compiler, and own set of rules. One of them is that you may not access a field which is not initialized, although the Java-commpiler would initialize variables for you.