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Re:JVM Anatomy Quarks by UncleMeat on Saturday February 01, 2020 @01:52PM (#22212388)
Final applies to the field, not the object. You can still mutate the object pointed at by a final field.
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Re:JVM Anatomy Quarks by MaxBarraclough on Saturday February 01, 2020 @04:06PM (#22213235)
Sure, but the instance's only field, is final.

The static reference KNOWN_M is final, and the only field of the pointed-to instance, x, is also final.

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