On Sunday, 4 December 2016 at 19:49:15 UTC, NVolcz wrote:
My understanding was that the main argument for final by default was that it is easy to make the wrong decision for a method to be virtual and then going from virtual to final would break the compatibility.
I have a lot of experience with various language who are virtual by default, and this ended up being a big problem none of the time in years.
I understand the theoretical problem, but it is not that big of an issue in practice.
