The Final(ize) Challenge

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Back to your idea...
> 
> This feature that you suggest seems very trivial for the compiler to 
> implement, while extremely hard to do it via reflection.

The problem is, there are a million things that are trivial for the 
compiler to implement and harder with libraries. But that approach just 
doesn't scale. Finalize is only the beginning and pretty much a working 
example to flesh out library primitives. Don't get bogged down by it.

Andrei