So far, we have said that the only things in an interface are static and
non-static methods. I want to identify a bunch of other things that can
(and in some cases must) live in an interface:
Type definitions and declarations
Constant definitions (e.g. for enum and/or union labels)
Attributes *declarations* (which we have discussed).
I'm going to go a tad further, and propose that the syntax for declaring an
attribute "i" of type "int32" should be:
interface SampleInterface {
...
int i;
}
That is: from a syntactic perspective it *looks* like a field declaration.
There is a method to my madness here, but before I say what it is I want to
learn how many of you lost your lunch in response to this.
Finally, I'm going to adopt a convenience shorthand. An interface
declaration preceded by "static", as in:
static interface MyStaticInterface {
... declarations ...
}
Is a convenience shorthand for saying that every method and attribute
declared within the interface is static.
shap
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