<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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="">You asked me to correct you and I shall: </span></div></blockquote><div>Well, in the first place, I asked how many subclasses you have to "seal" manually… may I assume that it is a low number?</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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="">You asked for an example where this feature would be needed and I've provided. </span></div></blockquote><div>No, actually you provided an example where you think the feature would be needed… but wait:</div><div>How could you write it then? Do I have a wrong interpretation of "needed", or did you write this thing in an apocalyptic future? ;-)</div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: 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="">As I said, a concrete and real example. But I haven't seen anyone give the slightest concrete technical reason not to approve it and please don't come saying fix bugs in a library by subclassing because that's not what subclassing is for. That is a misuse of object orientation in whichever language you're working with.</span></div></blockquote></div>At least there are many real (at least I think so) examples of problems that could be solved because sealed isn't the default now…<div class="">But as I said in another message:</div><div class="">All of this is not about technical reasons, but only about personal preference — and my preference is to have fun writing software, instead of struggling with bureaucracy.</div></body></html>