Q: Why is java.lang.Runtime non-final?

Joseph D. Darcy joe.darcy at oracle.com
Fri Nov 22 03:46:08 UTC 2024


On 11/18/2024 1:17 PM, Chen Liang wrote:
> Hi Eirik,
> I think it might have been a legacy oversight; note that even 
> java.util.Arrays was just recently made final.
>

PS it would be a "small matter of programming" to write an annotation 
processor to find the not subclassable public classes in the JDK that 
were not marked final.


-Joe
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