Re: final methods and classes
Lionel van den Berg wrote:
Just wondering what arguments there are out there for making methods
and classes final when they are not expected to be overridden/
extended? Typically I would make them final, but when I'm doing code
reviews I don't raise this as an issue because I see it is relatively
trivial.
Arne Vajh??j wrote:
In my opinion none it is a leftover from the very early days of Java.
See:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp1029.html
Sorry about the accidental post. I had intended to write:
Excellent link, Arne. However, that very article gives many good reasons for
using the 'final' keyword, contradicting your notion that there aren't good
reasons for it.
From an API writer's perspective, that is, anyone writing classes intended to
be used, 'final' on a class or method indicates that it should not, and
therefore cannot be extended / overridden. As Mr. Goetz said in the
referenced article, this decision should be documented (in the Javadocs).
Josh Bloch in /Effective Java/ suggests that one should prefer composition to
inheritance, and that inheritance is somewhat abused. ("Design and document
for inheritance or else prohibit it") He advises to make classes final unless
you explicitly and properly make them heritable.
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