Consider the following partial code for some Java class:

public class Person
{
public static final int maxPeople = 10;

public Person()
{

/* ... rest of class continues here... */

Assume the remainder of the class is defined correctly. What, if anything, is the biggest problem with this portion of code?

Question

Consider the following partial code for some Java class:

public class Person
{
  public static final int maxPeople = 10;  
  
  public Person()
  {
  
  /* ... rest of class continues here... */

Assume the remainder of the class is defined correctly. What, if anything, is the biggest problem with this portion of code?

Answer

There is nothing that will cause a syntax error in the code, however, convention dictates that the maxPeople variable name should be capitalised with underscores, rather than in camel case.

Answer

The access modifier for maxPeople should be private, not public.

Answer

A field cannot be both static and final.

Answer

There is nothing visibly wrong with the code, syntactically or otherwise.

Answer

The variable maxPeople should not be initialised until a constructor is called.

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