Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-6165?orig=1
Reporter: Artūras Šlajus (arturaz)
Affected Versions: 2.9.2
Duplicates #6880

Artūras Šlajus (arturaz) said:
From #scala @ freenode.

! class P(private[this] var f:String) { f = f + "hellO"; def ff = f }
<multibot_> defined class P
! new P("").ff
<multibot_> String = ""
! class P(private var f:String) { f = f + "hellO"; def ff = f }
<multibot_> defined class P
! new P("").ff
<multibot_> String = hellO
definitely a bug...
oh, wow, I've discovered a scala bug? :]
! class P(protected var f:String) { f = f + "hellO"; def ff = f }; new P("").ff
<multibot_> defined class P
<multibot_> String = hellO
arturaz: have a cookie :)

• jbwiv (~wellsj@world.timcogso.com) has joined #scala
  I should probably report it, right?
  :))

@paulp said:
It only loses the change when issued from the constructor. If you add

def g { f = f + "hellO" }

And call g, it works.

still present in 2.12.4

Fixed in 2.13, but I didn't see where.

I didn't see that it duplicates #6880