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Original Post: Not a natural thought...
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Not a natural thought for a Smalltalker, IMHO - declare everything final? This goes back to my main problem with the whole notion of final - it assumes knowledge on the part of the library designer that he can't possibly have - he doesn't know how the code will actually be used in the field, or what possible extensions someone else might consider. Instead, he just arbitrarily closes the whole thing off and announces it's perfect just the way it is
Now - how much software have you seen that qualifies as perfect?
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