On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:45:21PM -0800, Glenn Linderman wrote: > Final seems to be a way of sealing off a class or method from future > inheritance. Generally, the arguments I've seen on OO lists seem to > indicate that regardless of how omniscient the original designer is, > someone will get an idea for a useful subclass for the class or method, > but run into the problem of not being able to extend it because of the > superclass implementor's choice to make it final. Hence, final seems to > be a concept that is rather un-Perl-ish.
Hmm. It would be un-Perl-ish to not provide a mechanism for the fascist to implement final if they wanted it. Which leads me to wonder if a way unfolds from the syntax already revealed or if we have to wait for the OOP-Apocalypse to see how to put our PRE conditions on the "isa" mechanism. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
