From: Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
Date: 2005-08-21T06:12:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-overridable and non-redefinable methods

--- Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> What happens when there is a bug in a 3rd-party library that
> I want  
> to fix by overriding a method, but they've frozen it or made
> it final?

That 3rd party library can already freeze the class right now. 
They may do that for efficiency reasons in YARV or some other
VM/complier.  Or they may have in-lined certain methods
(possibly C) manually for performance reasons.  freezing a
method is less restrictive than freezing a class.



		
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