On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 15:57:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
At a level it's clear it's not a matter of right or wrong but
instead a judgment call, right? Successful languages go with
either default.
Andrei
For what it's worth, "education" could help solve this problem:
For example, "people" where surprised by the context pointer in
nested structs, and now (I think), it is (or will become) second
nature to always type:
static struct S
{...}
Heck, I even do it for my global structs too now.
So maybe the issue could be solved by educating to always type
(by default):
final class A
{...}
The first step in this direction would be to update the
documentation to add said final in as many places where it makes
sense, and then to do the same thing to the Phobos code base.
