Even for local variables, knowing that it is declared final means that I don't need to worry about the reference being changed later on. This means that when debugging and I see that variable later on, I am confident that it is referring to the same object. That is one less thing I need to worry about when looking for a bug. A bonus is that if 99% of variables are declared final, then the few variables which really are variable stand out better. Also, the final lets the compiler find some more possible stupid mistakes that might otherwise go unnoticed.

有效的Java有一个条目写着“偏爱不可变对象”。将字段声明为final可以帮助您在这方面迈出一小步，但是对于真正的不可变对象来说，当然还有更多的事情要做。

如果您知道对象是不可变的，那么可以在多个线程/客户端之间共享它们以供读取，而无需担心同步问题，并且更容易推断程序的运行方式。

将类标记为final还可以使一些方法绑定发生在编译时而不是运行时。 考虑下面的“v2.foo()”——编译器知道B不能有子类，所以foo()不能被重写，所以要调用的实现在编译时是已知的。如果类B没有被标记为final，那么v2的实际类型可能是某个扩展B并重写foo()的类。

class A {
    void foo() {
        //do something
    }
}
final class B extends A {
    void foo() {
    }
}
class Test {
    public void t(A v1, B v2) {
        v1.foo();
        v2.foo();
    }
}

I have to read a lot of code for my job. Missing final on instance variables is one of the top things to annoy me and makes understanding the code unnecessarily difficult. For my money, final on local variables causes more clutter than clarity. The language should have been designed to make that the default, but we have to live with the mistake. Sometimes it is useful particularly with loops and definite assignment with an if-else tree, but mostly it tends to indicate your method is too complicated.

听起来，反对使用最后一个关键字的最大论点之一是“这是不必要的”，而且它“浪费空间”。

如果我们承认“final”的许多好处，同时承认它需要更多的输入和空间，我认为Java应该默认将变量设置为“final”，并且如果编码器想要的话，就要求将变量标记为“mutable”。

我将它用于方法内部和外部的常量。

我有时只将它用于方法，因为我不知道子类是否不想覆盖给定的方法(无论出于什么原因)。

至于类，我只对一些基础类使用了final类。

IntelliJ IDEA会在函数参数被写入函数内部时发出警告。我已经停止使用final作为函数参数了。我在java运行库中也没有看到它们。