Re: [Vala] Final / Sealed classes in Vala

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail 3v1n0 net>]

Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:34:48 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> > However, `sealed' is not meant for "static classes", that concept is not
> > encouraged in Vala as we support namespace methods.
>
> C# documentation explicitly states, that combining static and sealed is
> forbidden on classes, for precisely the same reason.

Well, it's not in Java but I think it could be useful in our case since
it would allow to define (mostly in a VAPI) a type that is returned by
some functions but that cannot be instantiated, nor it can't be used as
super type since the C definition doesn't provide a free or creation
function (I've found situations where this could be useful, avoiding the
needing of setting an empty free_function).