When does final mean "maybe, kinda, sorta" ?

[kris]

Steve Horne wrote:
[snip]

> And adding a new private member to a base class should not
> break any derived classes that might happen to already use the same
> signature for a (private or public) method, especially since you may
> have no control or even knowledge of those derived classes.

Given that, I'd imagine you'd be a proponent of making 'override' a 
required keyword? After all, not requiring it will likely lead to the 
same type of problem when a base-class method is removed.

Yet, judging by past record, override is unlikely to ever be required.