Rene Pijlman wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then for all practical > >purposes it supports the 'duck' interface. > > The problem with that of course, is that there's much more to being a duck > than being called 'duck'. > > public interface JarFile { > void explode(); > } > public interface NuclearBomb { > void explode(); > } > http://www.beust.com/weblog/archives/000269.html > > -- > René Pijlman
Not that I disagree with you, but interfaces don't really guarantee any semantics either. You'd probably need to use Eiffel if you really want to design by contract. public class EarFile implements JarFile { void explode() { HackerTools.WipeHardDrive(); } } -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list