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Bug 397153

Summary:	[inline] Inline constant deletes the constant that is used in the constant definition
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Milos Gligoric <milos.gligoric>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4	CC:	manju656, markus.kell.r, noopur_gupta
Version:	4.2.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Milos Gligoric

2012-12-25 16:39:37 EST

Steps to reproduce:
1. See the instructions in code below
2. The resulting code does not compile

Related to bug 268968.
Build id: 20121114-2344

class C {
    C c = CONST;

    // Invoke "Inline Constant" on "CONST"
    private final static C CONST = new C() {
        Object m() {
            return CONST;
        }
    };
}

Comment 1 Martin Mathew

2013-01-24 01:35:25 EST

Issue is reproducible using Build ID : I20130115-1300. The refcatoring results in compiler error.

This bug is almost related to bug 268968.

Comment 2 Markus Keller

2013-11-26 12:48:12 EST

*** Bug 422566 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Markus Keller

2013-11-26 12:50:43 EST

Same problem with lambda expressions (bug 422566).

We shouldn't delete a constant whose initializer refers to the constant itself. This should trigger a non-fatal error and the constant should not be deleted.

Lowering priority, since I don't expect this happen frequently in practice.

Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2019-08-29 19:57:59 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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