From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f79bb,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf79bb,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Eiffel and Java Date: 1996/10/29 Message-ID: <55562c$nkd@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 192924563 references: <550sm2$sn1@buggy.news.easynet.net> organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: 1996-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: donh@syd.csa.com.au (Don Harrison) writes: >What is the purpose of separating interface and implementation inheritance? Suppose I have two existing library classes (perhaps supplied by different vendors) which have some commonality, but don't inherit from a common base class. In Sather, one can simply create a new interface and declare these classes to be instances of this interface, without modifying the existing code. (Is that possible in Java?) -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.