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Brendan Eich (2013-08-29T23:21:15.000Z)

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Kevin Reid wrote:
> (I admit I favor composition/delegation over inheritance, for public 
> interfaces, and therefore dislike the notion of working with 
> subclasses of concrete built-ins.

+∞

> But one could also consider, for example, the reasons why 
> java.lang.String is final.)

One could also view that as a total failure of the java.lang.String 
designers/implementors.

http://researcher.ibm.com/files/us-bacon/Corwin03MJSlides-Grove.pdf‎

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domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-08-31T21:12:24.380Z)

Kevin Reid wrote:
> (I admit I favor composition/delegation over inheritance, for public 
> interfaces, and therefore dislike the notion of working with 
> subclasses of concrete built-ins.

+∞

> But one could also consider, for example, the reasons why 
> java.lang.String is final.)

One could also view that as a total failure of the `java.lang.String` 
designers/implementors.

http://researcher.ibm.com/files/us-bacon/Corwin03MJSlides-Grove.pdf‎

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