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Subject: Re: Separate Compilation in Programming Languages
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:38:55 -0500
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<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> The ripple-effect will occur
> since most of a Java design is not based on Interfaces, 

This is a description of a common Java _practice_, not a requirement
of the Java _language_.

So, as others have said, keeping the interface specification separate
from the implementation is _easier_, and possibly more common, in Ada.
But it is also _possible_ in Java.

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-- Stephe