Yeah - it's a bit non-intuitive you can change the value of a number.

▲ J-Kuhn 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Doesn’t field.setAccessible(true) already throw on a modern version?

▲ inigyou 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

In Python 2 you could literally do

    True = False

and of course in JavaScript

    undefined = "a string"

	▲	swiftcoder 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The terrifying part of this in Java, is that it applies program-wide, including to constants set before you changed the value