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Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> No. They're useless. Ada 95 has several idioms to accomplish what Java
> does with interfaces.

The one thing you can do with interfaces that you cannot do in other
ways is cross-cast between them, without having to know or mention a
common ancestor or containing type.