Github user aljoscha commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4530
I think the approach is OK, though I personally would have preferred to
make the instance variable protected and override `processWatermark()` to
minimise impact on `AbstractStreamOperator`, which now has an extra method
call. (though that will probably be inlined)
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