On 3/13/2014 1:09 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

Also let's not forget that a bunch of people will have not had contact with the
group and will not have read the respective thread. For them -- happy campers
who get work done in D day in and day out, feeling no speed impact whatsoever
from a virtual vs. final decision -- we are simply exercising the brunt of a
deprecation cycle with undeniable costs and questionable (in Walter's and my
opinion) benefits.

Also,

    class C { final: ... }

achieves final-by-default and it breaks nothing.