Final by default?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Don"  wrote in message news:ekymfpqyxasvelcixrjp at forum.dlang.org...

> I agree completely.
>
> Some things that really should be fixed, don't get fixed because of a 
> paranoid fear of breaking code. And this tends to happen with the issues 
> that can give nice warning messages and are easy to fix...
>
> Yet there are still enough bugs that your code breaks every release 
> anyway.
> We need to lose the fantasy that there is legacy code which still 
> compiles.
> Anything more than a year or so old is broken already.

As usual I agree with every single thing in this post, and Sean's. 
Regressions are bad but have nothing to do with using slow, controlled 
deprecation to make the language better.