there is no way to declare public final fields

[calavera]

The compiler always create private fields:

https://github.com/mirah/mirah/blob/master/lib/mirah/jvm/compiler.rb#L593-597

In some cases, constants for instance, public and final fields are useful.

[baroquebobcat]

Hm. I think since we're emulating Ruby's behavior it might make sense to default fields to protected. We could allow using @syntax to refer to private and public fields that are not constants.

Maybe for that we'd want to make a syntax for declarations in cases where you want to change the visibility.