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  • Subject: RE: Newbie question - Final classes
  • From: "Alistair Rooney" <alistairr@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:56:20 +0200
  • Importance: Normal

Thanks Mike. I get it now!

Alistair

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Mike.Barton@ecsoft.co.uk
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:12 PM
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Subject: Re: Newbie question - Final classes





>Please excuse these basic questions but I'm still grappling java after far
>too many years in RPG. The question is: Why would you not want a class to
be
>sub-classed. Can anyone give me a simple example? Or am I misunderstanding
>the use of final.

Alistair
     as an example, the String class is defined as final...
Would you really want a programmer to sub-class this class ? probably not !

Mike


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