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Re: Why only public methods on interfaces?

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From	"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
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"Patricia Shanahan" <pats@acm.org> wrote in message 
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> 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.

Unless new syntax like "package-private" is introduced.

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