Final by default?

[develop32]

On Saturday, 15 March 2014 at 08:50:00 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> This is nonsense.  I tried out the warning on some of my 
> projects, and they required ZERO changes - because it's a 
> warning!
>
> Phobos requires 37 "virtual:"s to be added - or just change the 
> makefile to use '-wi' instead of '-w'.  Druntime needed 25.
>
> We don't even need to follow the usual 6-months per stage 
> deprecation - We could leave it as a warning for 2 years if we 
> wanted!
>
> Grepping for class declarations and sticking in "virtual:" is 
> as trivial as a fix can possibly be.

When virtual keyword was introduced in Github master I 
immediately went to add a bunch of "virtual" in my projects... 
only to find myself done after few minutes.

I see some irony in the fact that if classes are made 
final-by-default, removing all the unnecessary "final" attributes 
would be an order of magnitude longer task.