Re: Can Interfaces be mimicked with classes

Hi,

sundarvenkata wrote:
Can the functionality of interfaces be mimicked with classes?? If so
why would the language designers choose to include interfaces in the
language design when classes alone would have been sufficient

You are right, that an abstract class can be a substitude for an interface in some cases.

Note however, that interfaces allow multiple inheritance where classes don't.

Ciao,
Ingo

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