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		lolive 36 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Use Your Type System Primitive object types in Java (String, Float, …) are final. That blocks you from doing such tricks, as far as I understand.

viktorcode 36 days ago [–]

The idea is to just wrap them in a unique type per intended use case, like AccountID, SessionID, etc. and inside the may contain a single field with String.

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