On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote:
> Understood, but the keyword (pun) here is "effectively". Why let a > developer wait until runtime to find out his code will fail? At least > by marking the class as final, anybody who wishes to subclass it will > receive a compiler error. Rain on the parade early :-) > Paul, this is caught at compile time, since you can't call the private constructor. The "final" would be redundant. Bob
