Description Brian Curnow 2007-09-19 09:01:17 EDT

A class defined like this:

public class Good {
    private static final String B = "This is a" + A;
    private static final String A = " test";
}

(which doesn't compile) 

Will be correct sorted to:

public class Good {
    private static final String A = " test";
    private static final String B = "This is a" + A;
}

Because the variables are sorted in alphabetic order, however, the class:

public class Bad {

    private static final String B = " test";
    private static final String A = "This is a" + B;
}

(which does compile)

Will be incorrectly sorted to:

public class Bad {

    private static final String A = "This is a" + B;
    private static final String B = " test";
}

(which *does not* compile)

Sort members should not simply sort the variable name but should also take into account the dependency between variables.