Scala objects are final (singleton objects)

As a quick note, objects created with object are final by default in Scala. I don’t think this is shown in Scala 2, but it’s made clear in the Scala 3 REPL:

scala> final object Foo
1 |final object Foo
  |^^^^^
  |final modifier is redundant for objects
// defined object Foo

Because the object keyword in Scala creates a singleton object, attempting to mark it as final is redundant. Putting this another way, as described in the Scala Tour, an object defines a class that has exactly one instance.