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Coding style is a set of guidelines that helps readability and understanding of the source code.

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In Java, should I use "final" for parameters and locals even when I don't have to?

I consider final in method parameters and local variables to be code noise. Java method declarations can be quite long (especially with generics) - there's no need to make them any longer. Unit tests …
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