Question ad #AwkwardStrongEncapsulation (Re: Moving the changes in jake to jdk9/dev

[Jochen Theodorou]

On 12.12.2016 20:56, Alex Buckley wrote:
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> The ability of protected members to be accessed from outside their
> package means they are essentially public members for the purposes of
> inheritance and reflection. So, setAccessible should work for protected
> members of exported packages. I know what you mean about the receiver
> object being of the correct class, but that's outside the capability of
> setAccessible to check, so I don't believe it is checked.

why does it have to be checked? why not just allow it? I mean that is 
why I use setAccessible in the first place. I have much less use of 
making something accessible for which I already have access rights

bye Jochen