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Comment: Dropped vacuous Applicability section as per Dave and Dean's comments.

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public static final int VOTING_AGE = 18;
public static final int ALCOHOL_AGE = 21;

Applicability

Failure to properly encode relationships in constant declarations can lead to unexpected values and can complicate maintenance.

Bibliography

[JLS 2011] §4.12.4, "final Variables"

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