[swift-evolution] Final by default for classes and methods

[Matthew Johnson]

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> On Dec 23, 2015, at 2:28 PM, Felipe Cypriano via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015, at 11:12, Felipe Cypriano wrote:
>> About sealed vs final. I think this is a do or do not, sealed would just
>> complicate things by having different behavior depending on where the
>> code is. I'd go with final by default or not go at all.
>  
> I changed my mind about sealed being a bad thing, this email from [John McCall](https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20151207/001032.html) has very good points.
>  
> ---
>  
> Also I just noticed that this thread title mentions methods as final by default, but I can't find an example/proposal of how it would work. My question is is anyone suggesting that methods must be marked as "overridable" even if the class is inheritable? E.g:

The original post did indeed have that intention.  However, pretty much the entire thread has been focused exclusively on classes, not methods.  That has turned out to be a plenty big can of worms on its own.

I think it's best to keep this thread focused on classes.  We can start a new thread for methods later if desired.  But we should wait until the dust has settled on the classes conversation IMO.


>  
> ```
> open class Money {
>     func vanish() {
>     }
> }
> ```
>  
> Is `vanish` final?
>  
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