But then you are representing two distinct types as the same underlying type, St...

qcnguy · 2025-07-24T21:04:12 1753391052

It has to work that way or else you can't use the standard library. What you want to block is not:

    StringUtils.trim(String foo);

but

    myApp.doSomething(AnotherMyType amt);

The latter is saying "I need not any string but a specific kind of string".

buerkle · 2025-07-25T02:15:50 1753409750

No I want to block both. I don't want to give devs the option of creating a function doSomething(String) that happens to accept MyType. If I need to call trim then I'll do

  StringUtils.trim(MyType.toString());