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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: Q: Refactorizing code because Inheritance and Interfaces
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Michael Erdmann <Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de> writes:
> In order to line up the implemenation of the XML_Reader with the
> Abstract_Reader interface i need to rewrite the complete XML_Reader.
> Is there any way to avoid such situations?

Yes. Formal packages. I'm planning a tutorial on this. Also takes care
of interfaces.