Why private method can not be final as well?

Question

Is it redundant to add private and final to a same method?

class SomeClass {

    //--snip--

    private final void doStuff()
             


        

Answer 1

One edge case that requires a private method to be final is when the SafeVarargs annotation is used. The following code does not compile, because the private method is not final.

@SafeVarargs
private void method(List... stringLists) {
    //TODO a safe varargs operation
}