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Why final variable in Enhanced for Loop does not act final?

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 public class EnhancedForTest {
public static void main(String... args) {
    String[] strArr = {"A", "B", "C", "D"};

    for (final String s : strArr) {
      System.out.println(s);
    }
  }
}
Since the String s is delcared as final, this code should not compile. However, this is working fine. Why?
The enhanced for-loop as shown above is actually just as the following code:
public class EnhancedForTest {
  public static void main(String... args) {
    String[] strArr = {"A", "B", "C", "D"};

    for (int index = 0; index < strArr.length; index++) {
      final String s = strArr[index];
      System.out.println(s);
    }
  }
}
That is, s is a local variable (local to the for-loop) and it is not been assigned a value twice so it's just fine. Therefore, it's just local variable and each iteration of the loop a new different final local variable is created.

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