Hey Bruce,
On Fri, May 22, 2020, 22:07 Bruce Weirdan <weir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 7:26 PM Marco Pivetta <ocram...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Overall, this RFC breaks some design capabilities that are within the >> language, specifically around `__`-prefixed methods in the language. > > > Wouldn't your use cases be covered by `protected final` though, as > proposed by Pedro? > This design is made appositely to prevent the child class from being able to call the constructor: the only viable constructors are the named constructors on the supertype >