Final by default?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>]

On Sunday, 16 March 2014 at 13:23:33 UTC, Araq wrote:
> I note that you are not able to counter my argument and so you 
> escape to the meta level. But don't worry, I won't reply 
> anymore.

Discussing OO without a context is kind of pointless since there 
is multiple schools in the OO arena. The two main ones being:

1. The original OO analysis & design set forth by the people 
behind Simula67. Which basically is about representing 
abstractions (subsets) of the real word in the computer.

2. The ADT approach which you find in C++ std libraries & co.

These two perspectives are largely orthogonal…

That said, I think it to be odd to not use the term "virtual" 
since it has a long history (Simula has the "virtual" keyword). 
It would look like a case of being different for the sake of 
being different.

Then again, I don't really mind virtual by default if whole 
program optimization is still a future goal for D.

Ola.