Final by default?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Nick Treleaven"  wrote in message news:lfsb5c$1kvi$1 at digitalmars.com...

> Some discussion here:
> https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7417
>
> I understand the argument about not allowing version(X && Y), but I do 
> think this construct is ugly:
>
> version(Foo) {} else { //code
>
> Defining a version identifier NotFoo as well as Foo would be a bad 
> solution.
>
> What's wrong with:
>
> version(!Foo) {}

This is one of the few areas where D is idealistic instead of pragmatic. 
For some reason Walter has decided unlike most things, this needs to be 
forced upon everyone.

This reminds me of banning goto and multiple returns because 'structured 
programming' prevents goto spaghetti madness.  As always, it simply forces 
the programmer to jump through more hoops to get what they want.