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Re: vocabulary

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On 4/26/2014 9:09 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> Is there a word that means "class or interface"?
>

It depends on context I think, but "type" might work.  Classes and 
interfaces in Java are most often used to implement new types. 
"Super-type" and "sub-type" work to describe relationships between 
classes and interfaces.

Java is kind of weird too that it explicitly has an interface type.  C++ 
uses pure virtual classes instead of "interfaces", so in that language 
they are all classes.  It wouldn't be wrong to call an interface a class 
in Java.  You can have a class object that is an interface, right?  So 
interface is a sub-type of a class, a specific type of class with no 
method implementations.

Classes can be abstract too, which is sort of like an interface, 
although some methods now may have an implementation.

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