Backwards compatibility question (FontRenderContext)

[Philip Race]

Anyone doing that would be on their own. So also if it causes any tests 
to fail I'd be surprised.
I wasn't sure how much constructor code reorganisation would be needed 
but it doesn't look too bad.

-phil.

On 12/22/25 7:37 AM, Daniel Gredler wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> The `FontRenderContext` class does not have any setters for the data 
> which it carries, so from a public API perspective it is immutable. 
> However, the private instance variables are not declared final. I was 
> thinking about raising a small PR to make the instance variables 
> final, to more clearly indicate the immutability of the class. Is this 
> considered a backwards-compatible change? Or is it considered 
> non-backwards-compatible, since users can technically use reflection 
> to fiddle with the class internals (and since final will soon more 
> definitely mean final)?
>
> Take care,
>
> Daniel
>
>