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Re: Why only public methods on interfaces?

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On 04/07/2011 10:43 PM, Volker Borchert wrote:
> Joshua Cranmer wrote:
>> You can use abstract classes where reasonable;
>
> No, you can't, at least in some cases, because Java does not support
> multiple inheritance... and there are cases where the memory overhead
> of a Delegate is not tolerable.

I said "where reasonable" did I not? I know that multiple inheritance 
renders flaws in using abstract classes, etc., etc., etc... but, given 
the little I know of this use case, abstract classes seem like a 
feasible way to go.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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