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No. Closing is an integral part of maintaining this knowledge repository. If a question isn't up to our standards, it doesn't belong here, and closing is the first step in ensuring that. If a quest...
There is no keyword or compile-time construct to prevent this, but it can be accomplished through the use of a runtime exception: class Parent { public Parent() { if (getClass(...
The list you provided seems huge for a single Q/A. I think you're better off breaking them up, and linking to each other in the answers. The theory behind text encoding can be decoupled from Python...
In the current version of OpenJDK's JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects (Preview), it is said that value classes can leak data stored in their fields, and that this is potentially a security concern...
Quite obviously, these are the same. The name of the two is literally the same except for a hyphen. They only have one question each. Looking at the questions, they are indeed used for the same pur...
Is it possible to somehow prohibit anonymously subclassing of a specific class? For instance, with a plain public parent class: public class Parent { } Extending this class should not be pos...
