[fpc-devel] class abstract, class sealed implementation. please review.

[Florian Klaempfl]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> 2009/10/16 Paul Ishenin <webpirat at mail.ru>:
>> Sealed class is a class which can't be derived by another class. This one is
>> fully supported by delphi.
> 
> Would you mind explaining this - I never saw the benefit of a sealed
> class. 

>From a compiler developers point of view, it makes optimization easier
under certain cases (e.g. virtual method calls). It's the same as with
inline: inline has no advantage except that it is a hint to the compiler
how the code can be optimized.