On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:13:06 GMT, Per Minborg <pminb...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Non-instantiable utility classes should be declared `final` and have a > private constructors. > > See Effective Java, Third Edition, Joshua Bloch (for example, Item 19 or Item > 22). In some future, one could mistakenly instantiate the class from some new method in the class itself. Throwing protects against such mistakes already during testing, avoiding a reviewer to purposely checking that the empty constructor is never invoked. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13221#issuecomment-1488920408
