On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:10:14 -0400, Michael Shulman
<viritril...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
The following code fails the linker, complaining about an undefined
reference to 'foo':
interface A {
private int foo();
}
class B {
int bar(A x) { return x.foo(); }
}
void main() { }
But if I remove the 'private' qualifier on 'foo', then it succeeds.
Shouldn't B.bar() be able to access the private A.foo(), since they
are in the same package? If I move the definition of A into another
package, then the *compiler* fails with "interface member not
accessible", as I would expect.
Private methods are non-virtual, so I'm pretty sure they are not supposed
to be allowed in an interface.
But I suppose private could also mean private final, in which case you
have to provide an implementation for foo in the interface.
This would be in line with the error message.
-Steve
