In Delphi, all methods are assumed to be final. This means that protected final is just protected, public final is just public, and protected abstract is protected abstract. This way methods are final by default, and you don't have this problem; making everything abstract by default has its tradeoffs. Either things are more extensible (and you can shoot yourself in the foot), or things are more restricted and less flexible.
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In Delphi, all methods are assumed to be final. This means that protected final is just protected, public final is just public, and protected abstract is protected abstract. This way methods are final by default, and you don't have this problem; making everything abstract by default has its tradeoffs. Either things are more extensible (and you can shoot yourself in the foot), or things are more restricted and less flexible.
--Winheim Raulsh 22:52, 25 March 2009 (CET)