final abstract class

["Zdeněk Troníček"]

Hi,

we cannot subclass a final class and cannot instantiate an abstract class.
Why a combination of final and abstract is not allowed? Declaring a class
final and abstract would express in elegant way what is now done by final
and private constructor.
(Certainly not a big thing but the required changes in javac does not seem
to be large either.)

Z.
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Zdenek Tronicek
FIT CTU in Prague