RFR: 8305157: The java.util.Arrays class should be declared final

Wed Mar 29 16:19:30 UTC 2023

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:09:18 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulietti at openjdk.org> wrote:

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> Would it make sense to throw an `AssertionError` in the constructor? Just in case...

It hardly seems worth the bytecode; the constructor could only be invoked by breaking in using reflection and the result would be an instance with no instance methods.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13221#issuecomment-1488911733