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Why is class String final ?????????

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dufourd@enst.enst.fr)
Fri Sep 29 09:02:18 1995

From: dufourd@enst.enst.fr
To: java-interest@java@sun.com
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 21:38:43 +0100

I just found out that class String is final.
This bars me from a very elegant solution for defining
a new layout manager (by adding information to the name string
of components instead of having to subclass every @#%&!*^ component
I want to use). This seems really unnecessary.

Please enlighten me!

JC

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