<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I can't speak for the others but I join the list as a skeptical of this proposal and in one day I've embraced it. The benefits of it far out weight the fears of having it. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'd love to read it from the beginning but is kind of impossible. <br><br>Felipe Cypriano</div><div><br>On Dec 23, 2015, at 02:51, Tino Heth <<a href="mailto:2th@gmx.de">2th@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Isn't this proposal solving a problem that in practice doesn't exist or isn't common enough to be worth a language level fix? I'm trying to find an example of a common problem - in any language - that would benefit by having final/sealed by default.</span><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"></div></blockquote></div>I guess you share that attitude with most developers that have not read the full thread and never will do… and that is not meant as a suggestion to review all those posts;-): I don't think there is anything that will make someone change his opinion on this topic.</div></blockquote></body></html>