On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:00:21PM -0500, Melvin Smith wrote: > >final and private are completely different concepts as I understand > >them. > > I wouldn't say "completely different". They are both used for "enforcement" > of similar means, but you are correct, they are different.
I view "final" as being most useful in an optimization sense. A final
method may be safely inlined, and does not require a vtable entry.
- Damien
