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Re: Why only public methods on interfaces?

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On 4/8/11 8:59 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
> [...]
> The really unfortunate decision is not the public methods only, but the
> decision to make non-specification of access mean public interface
> method declarations but package access in class method declarations.
> That cuts off any possibility of changing interfaces now to make them
> more flexible.

You mean other than following the example of C#.

I realize that's anathema to the designers of Java, but it _could_ be 
done and it _would_ address the specific concern voiced here.

Pete

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