[tpm]

Yeah - it's a bit non-intuitive you can change the value of a number.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Disgruntled-Bomb-Java-Editi...

[J-Kuhn]

Such hacks will slowly stop working (without explicitly allowing it from the command line.)

In this example, it would throw an IllegalAccessException, because java.base doesn't open java.lang.

[inigyou]

In Python 2 you could literally do

    True = False

and of course in JavaScript

    undefined = "a string"

[swiftcoder]

The terrifying part of this in Java, is that it applies program-wide, including to constants set before you changed the value