Re: Protected and package in iterface
Philipp wrote:
Lew wrote:
Philipp wrote:
Lew wrote in thread "Interface":
Why did the people writing the Java specs decide that an interface
should not contain protected and package methods?
I can imagine several cases where this would be useful.
Perhaps you can describe what such a feature in an interface would
give you that isn't available from the existing mechanisms?
Multiple inheritance inside a package for example. You develop a
package, and internally you want your classes to implement some
interface. But you don't want those methods to be public, just package
visible.
You don't want to let the outside world know about the internal
functioning of your lib/package (there's a public API for that), but
still want to have the power of the interface construct when developping
the lib.
So make the interface itself package-private, or nest it and declare it any
access level you want. Doesn't that do what you need?
--
Lew
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