On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 22:29:39 GMT, Andy Goryachev <ango...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> There might be a very narrow use case (like debugging) when developer might > need to extend to supply a custom `toString()` or some other method. > > From a high level design standpoint, I do agree with making these classes > final. Maybe, but that's not a sufficient reason to allow subclassing, as the same could be said for all cases of encapsuluation and inheritance control. Alternatives are: 1) Use the debugger to mark objects 2) Use a tool to change method definitions at runtime 3) Download OpenJFX and build it locally with the required changes ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1587#issuecomment-2387234029
