Description Jacques Bapst 2004-01-27 11:35:39 EST

If, in an instance method, I assign the reference "this" to some value 
(including null) I receive no error (nor the compiler neither during the 
execution) and this assignation seems to have no effect.

"this" is a final variable and its value may not be changed.

In the debugger the line(s) seems to be skipped (no breakpoint possible).

Example :  public void f() {
             this=null;     // Suicide accepted
             this=new ...   // Also accepted
             ... 
           }