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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:04:25 -0500
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Subject: Re: [lang] static methods with final keyword
From: Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Christian Grobmeier
<grobmeier@gmail.com> wrote:
> In langs StringEscapeUtils are some static methods marked with
> final... it makes no sense to me to do that. I would like to remove
> the final keywords. Any objections? not sure if this breaks bc (cannot
> imagine)
>

+1

There is technically some sense of overriding static methods and RT
assignability, but I don't think it's very useful in this context.

Matt

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