On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 22:15:53 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <s...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > Folks who are doing it are likely seeing random exceptions anyway at a > > later time ! > > What we will do if the field will be set to null directly? Throw NPE at any > point later when we will found null? The field is protected. If a subclasser wants to destroy the functionality of a class they are subclassing there are lots of ways they can do that. Just add advisory doc on the protected field too. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4989
