Final by default? [Decided: No]

[John Colvin]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 04:58:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> I hear you. Time to put this in a nice but firm manner: your 
> arguments were understood but did not convince. The matter has 
> been settled. There will be no final by default in the D 
> programming language. Hope you understand.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

In light of this and as a nod to Manu's expertise and judgment on 
the matter:

We should make his reasoning on the importance of deliberately 
choosing virtual vs private in API-public classes prominent in 
documentation, wikis, books and other learning materials.

It may not be an important enough to justify a large language 
break, but if Manu says it is genuinely a problem in his 
industry, we should do our best to alleviate as much as is 
reasonable.