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Gary D. Gregory commented on LANG-1810:
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The fact that the field is not final is a plain old mistake/bug.
The issue is that fixing it breaks binary compatibility.
It's that simple.
If a "faulty" app/lib edits the field, then indeed, that's not an intended use
case, but the end-user can't do anything about it if the faulty call is in a
transitive dependency (user app -> faulty JAR -> Lang).
We've always been careful to never break BC in a major release line; in my
view, breaking BC here is not worth it. JAR hell is never fun.
> Public static fields must be final
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> Key: LANG-1810
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1810
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.20.0
> Reporter: Sebb
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 4.0
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> https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/blob/8b91981bf647312d2b0af0cc5d00d42f5d843868/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/ArrayUtils.java#L197
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