Hello, all!
I'm new to Java but I was going over the original problem here and I would like to offer my thoughts as to why removing the return in line 4 causes the compile-time error.
If a variable is declared final and the default constructor initializes the state of all members in the object, would it not make sense that the compiler would not allow a final variable to be uninitialized because of an empty construct body? In other words, the return is needed in the construct to at least initialize the final variable? Or am I totally wrong because the construct is explicit and the final variable is a class member and one has nothing to do with the other?
Or do I need to take up knitting instead of Java?