Final by default?

[Nick Sabalausky]

On 3/12/2014 8:29 PM, Chris Williams wrote:
>
> If done excessively, I could certainly see that. But outside of new
> languages that haven't gotten to that point yet, I don't know of any
> that don't have compiler/runtime flags of this sort. E.g. Java, Perl, C,
> C++, PHP, etc. I would be curious why you think D can escape this fate?
>

PHP is a perfect example of why language-altering flags is a very bad 
path to start heading down. (Granted, the problem is *vastly* worse in 
an interpreted language than a compiled one, but still.)