Final by default?

[Anonymouse]

On Saturday, 15 March 2014 at 18:18:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/15/2014 2:21 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> In any language with properties, accessors also allow for:
>>
>> - lazy initialization
>>
>> - changing the underlying data representation without 
>> requiring client code to
>> be rewritten
>>
>> - implement access optimizations if the data is too costly to 
>> keep around
>
> You can always add a property function later without changing 
> user code.

Cough getopt.