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It is often useful to declare that, in a subclass, a certain field of the superclass has a more precise type. To be safe, this feature only applies to final fields. 

class A
{
  final Reader reader;
}

class B extends A
{
  override FileReader reader;
}

The new type must be a subtype of the original type, and the original field must be final.

Implementation notes: the type in the default constructors of B must be changed. For the field access methods, the get method can simply be overriden.

-- DanielBonniot - 21 Jul 2003

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Revision r1.1 - 21 Jul 2003 - 12:59 GMT - DanielBonniot
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