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Re: vocabulary

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 12:52:38 -0700, Roedy Green wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 20:23:03 +1000, "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
> 
>>He refers to "class or interface" which are most definitely types, not
>>instances surely?
> 
> In the sense I am looking for a generic term,
> a class is a some source code bracketed with class xxx { }
> an interface is some source code bracketed with interface xxx { }.
> 
> One way of looking at it is it is a related group of methods.
> 
> In many cases whatever you can do with a class reference you can do with
> an interface reference. You should not have spell out "class or
> interface" reference. In that case reference does mean both by default.
> 
> If I were designing Java syntax from scratch, perhaps I would have would
> made interface a modifier, e.g. interface class cf. abstract class. 
> Then we would not have the awkward implements vs extends distinction.
> 
> I wonder if we could deprecate extends and make it a synonym for
> implements. If the defined is an interface, it implies the extends
> meaning.

It seems to me that the only reason Java has both Abstract Class and 
Interface definitions is to sidestep having to implement multiple 
inheritance: if multiple inheritance was supported there would be no 
difference between them. That said, I seldom use Interface definitions 
but find the distinction can be useful.


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