Talking from my experience, classes which are designed to be final, often end up being inherited from at some point or another. This happened to me quite often in C++ when taking other people's/company's code and required fixing their source code.
However, if you guys think it will help you I don't really mind adding it. At least for consistency sake even though I think it's useless :)
So as far as I'm concerned you can go ahead and commit it. But I still think it's better not to use it in the long run :P
Andi
At 09:08 PM 6/21/2003 +0200, Marcus Börger wrote:
Hello Cristiano,
Saturday, June 21, 2003, 2:07:09 AM, you wrote:
MB> Hello Cristiano,
MB> Friday, June 20, 2003, 9:03:33 PM, you wrote:
CD>> Ok, final methods and attributes are cool, but what about final classes ? CD>> Is it hard to implement ? Or all classes must be able to be extended by CD>> children ?
MB> It would be easy to implement and i made a running patch some time back. But
MB> we were uncertain about the result, whether or not it is really helpfull and
MB> needed in a loose typed language as PHP. But if you come up with a very good
MB> scenario were final classes are really needed chances are good they make it
MB> into PHP 5, if not chances are not so good.
Attached is a patch that allows final classes.
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