Frans, Agreed! I wasn't arguing Anders's position for him. Another disadvantage is in the area of testing. Michael Feathers has complained about being unable to extend classes naturally in order to override a single method for testing purposes; the "sealed" and non-virtual-by-default defeat that.
> > dyn. proxy at runtime has many advantages, and > because MS doesn't realize that a dyn. proxy mechanism is > really needed in the CLR, all kinds of tricks have to be used > which aren't really transparent. This IMHO limits .NET when > compared to Java. =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com