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why is the String class final?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Locke)
Fri Jan 12 17:23:38 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:43:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Jonathan Locke <jonl@sealevelsoftware.com>
To: java <java-interest@java.sun.com>
i have already run into three separate occasions for wanting to subclass
String. making this class final is decidedly non-optimal for me. why
exactly has this been done? what's wrong with allowing me to subclass
String?
J
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