Re: Can Interfaces be mimicked with classes

sundarvenkata wrote:

I bet this is homework. Oh well, I've already written the reply.

Can the functionality of interfaces be mimicked with classes??

Not in Java, no. The things you can't put in interfaces -- specifically,
instance variables -- mean that you can inherit, ie, implement,
multiple interfaces without having to solve some knotty efficiency
issues.

If so
why would the language designers choose to include interfaces in the
language design when classes alone would have been sufficient

Premise false.

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Mr Carter, /The Beiderbeck Affair/

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