I have started reading Kathy Sierra
Scjp 1.4 book....In the second chapter we have a question which asks indirectly whether U can compile "public static final int k;" as an instance variable declaration or not and the answer provided for this was that U can. I tried writing a class which declares a member variable in above mentioned manner,it gave me a compilation error according to which I shud have initialized this variable by assiging sme value to it.Please tell me whether its smething wrong in the Book's mentioned statement or smething else.