On Jul 24, David Wheeler wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 05:57 PM, chromatic wrote:
>
> >The first is a deeper question -- besides inheritance, there's
> >delegation, aggregation, and reimplementation (think mock objects)
> >that can make two classes have equivalent interfaces. I'd like some
> >way to mark this equivalence *without* having to inherit from an
> >abstract base class and I wish that interface equivalence were checked
> >before inheritance, as per Luke's idea.
>
> Sounds like you want Java-style "interfaces" to me.
Follow the thread back. Objective-C had them way first, and their
ur-name is "protocols."
- Kurt
