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Fields declared static final are also safe for multithreaded use. (See guideline TSM03-J. Do not publish partially initialized objects.) On a cautionary note, however, simply changing the modifier to final may not prevent attackers from indirectly retrieving an incorrect value from the static final variable before its initialization. (See guideline MSC07-J. Eliminate class initialization cycles.) Individual members of the referenced object can also be changed if it is mutable. (See guideline OBJ01-J. Be aware Do not assume that declaring a final reference may refer to _mutable_ datareference to be final causes the referenced object to be immutable.)
It is also permissible to use a wrapper method to retrieve the value of m_functions. This has encapsulation advantages as it restricts its accessibility to private. (See guideline OBJ00-J. Declare data members as private and provide accessible wrapper methods.) However, it is unnecessary when m_functions needs to be treated like a world-accessible constant.
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