Why is "protected and final" for top-level classes not possible?

Answer B) As I understand, "public and final" is possible but not "protected and final" for top-level classes. This would only bring some restrictions in accessibility to classes from other packages.

Regards, Carlos

Hi Carlos,

It's not "protected and final" which is not allowed - you're not allowed to use protected anyway on a top-level class. As for example, the following code doesn't work:

protected class SomeName {
}