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Swift's "Final" Countdown

And the inevitable deprecation of inheritance-based polymorphism

December 22, 2015

There’s an interesting discussion happening currently regarding a proposal on the swift-evolution mailing list to make Class types final by default in Swift. The initial proposal references the occasional need for a reference type that is not intended to be subclassed as the primary motivation.

There are some developers who are . . .