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Re: Why only public methods on interfaces?

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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.

Actually, you could make an argument that "protected" on an interface method 
would mean "only visible within the package", because it can't mean "and 
also visible to derived types".

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