Final by default?

[Walter Bright]

On 3/13/2014 1:09 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Also let's not forget that a bunch of people will have not had contact with the
> group and will not have read the respective thread. For them -- happy campers
> who get work done in D day in and day out, feeling no speed impact whatsoever
> from a virtual vs. final decision -- we are simply exercising the brunt of a
> deprecation cycle with undeniable costs and questionable (in Walter's and my
> opinion) benefits.

Also,

     class C { final: ... }

achieves final-by-default and it breaks nothing.