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Jodie Wong
3,522 PointsfactLabel reassigned
What does Ben mean when he says "factLabel cannot be reassigned". I get that the "final" keyword means that the factLabel is constant and therefore cannot be changed, but does the act of calling factLabel.setText(fact) not change this constant.
My best interpretation of this is that when Ben said the factLabel could not be reassigned. I think what it means is that the id in the R class can't be changed since it is constant and has the final keyword. So rather than changing the id itself when calling the factLabel.setText(fact). It simply changes the message attached to that id.
Hope I made sense there. So ye anyone who can clarify my understanding just offer up your 2 cents.