Github user pivovarit commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/127#issuecomment-209624730
@garydgregory I am aware of the importance of the `final` keyword in the
context your blogpost refers to, but this is something different. Static
methods are implicitly final. Adding `final` keyword will only prevent those
methods from being hidden in subclasses. Is this what you want to achieve?
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