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Re: Why only public methods on interfaces?

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On 8/04/2011 8:18 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> If you could specify that at interface were package
> scope

... which you can ...

, which you would limit all implementors to being in the
> interface's package.

... which again you can.

> In that case, you might as well use an abstract
> class.

Or an interface.

> I too have often wanted non-public methods in interfaces, but that is
> a possible rationale why they are always public.

It doesn't have anything to do with it. Interfaces themselves can be 
specified without an access modifier, which gives them package access; 
and nested interfaces can have any of the access modifiers.

The OP is asking about the access to what is *inside* the interface.

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  Re: Why only public methods on interfaces? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-04-07 21:48 -0300
  Re: Why only public methods on interfaces? Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-04-07 21:01 -0400
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      Re: Why only public methods on interfaces? Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-04-08 00:24 -0400
  Re: Why only public methods on interfaces? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-07 21:49 -0700
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          Re: Why only public methods on interfaces? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-08 06:59 -0700
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                Re: Why only public methods on interfaces? "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-09 22:14 -0700
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                Re: Why only public methods on interfaces? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-04-10 16:02 +0100
  Re: Why only public methods on interfaces? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-08 03:18 -0700
    Re: Why only public methods on interfaces? Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@bigpond.com> - 2011-04-08 20:32 +1000
  Re: Why only public methods on interfaces? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-04-08 20:34 +0100
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