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Why it necessary to implement clonealbe interface?

From Xue Feng <xf.lotus@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Why it necessary to implement clonealbe interface?
Date 2015-11-24 23:28 +0800
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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A class has to implement cloneable interface, otherwise its object can 
not be cloned. IMO, it is enough that a class clone itself by inheriting 
the clone method from Object class. It is somewaht reduntant to 
implement cloneable interface. Actually, there is nothing in cloneable 
interface. Namely, it is defined as follows:

interface cloneable {
}

I wonder the reason for this design. Any explanation? Thanks.

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Why it necessary to implement clonealbe interface? Xue Feng <xf.lotus@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-24 23:28 +0800
  Re: Why it necessary to implement clonealbe interface? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-11-24 11:03 -0500
    Re: Why it necessary to implement clonealbe interface? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-11-24 19:49 -0500
      Re: Why it necessary to implement clonealbe interface? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 11:01 -0800
        Re: Why it necessary to implement clonealbe interface? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-11-25 16:41 -0500
  Re: Why it necessary to implement clonealbe interface? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 23:00 -0800

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