Public defender methods and static inner classes in interfaces?

[Jim Mayer]

That's true, but Java class definitions allow package level access while
Java interface definitions do not.  The problem is that the proposed change
allows private access but explicitly disallows package level access.

-- Jim

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Mark Thornton <mthornton at optrak.co.uk>wrote:

>  On 08/09/2010 13:59, Jim Mayer wrote:
> > One problem with the suggestion below (that 'private' be allowed on
> classes
> > inside interfaces) is that it won't play nicely with unit testing
> frameworks
> > such as JUnit.  JUnit conventions rely fairly heavily on 'package'
> > protection, and a 'private' class inside an interface would be difficult
> to
> > test.
>
> Java already allows private classes within classes and also anonymous
> classes within interfaces. The same test issues arise in these cases.
>
> Regards,
> Mark Thornton
>
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