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Yeah - it's a bit non-intuitive you can change the value of a number. https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Disgruntled-Bomb-Java-Edition https://thedailywtf.com/ar

• inigyou 2mo ago
  In Python 2 you could literally do True = False and of course in JavaScript undefined = "a string"
  • swiftcoder 2mo ago
    The terrifying part of this in Java, is that it applies program-wide, including to constants set before you changed the value
• J-Kuhn 2mo ago
  Such hacks will slowly stop working (without explicitly allowing it from the command line.) In this example, it would throw an IllegalAccessException, because java.base doesn't open java.lang.
  • vips7L 2mo ago
    Doesn’t field.setAccessible(true) already throw on a modern version?
    • J-Kuhn 2mo ago
      Exactly. You can make it not throw by adding `--add-opens java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED` or similar to the command line, but breaking things like this is becoming harder.