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Sealed child classes

Saakina Kafu

What is the use of sealing a child class?

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Saakina Kafu12y ago
Thank you, that was really helpful.
Vulpes12y ago
If you've extended the base class in such a way or to such an extent that you don't think further extensibility would be useful or desirable, then you should seal the child class.

Sealing a class might enable certain optimizations to be made by the 'just in time' compiler.