On 3/13/2014 1:09 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Also let's not forget that a bunch of people will have not had contact with the group and will not have read the respective thread. For them -- happy campers who get work done in D day in and day out, feeling no speed impact whatsoever from a virtual vs. final decision -- we are simply exercising the brunt of a deprecation cycle with undeniable costs and questionable (in Walter's and my opinion) benefits.
Also, class C { final: ... } achieves final-by-default and it breaks nothing.