Pascal Obry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>   class GentleThread : public Runnable {
>>     ...
>>     }
>>
>>   class BruteThread : public Runnable {
>>     ...
>>     }
>>
>> will inherit an identical implementation of the interface Runnable from the
>> ancestor class. Do you see the difference?
>
>No. It has been said that Runnable is a pure virtual class. So there is no
>inherited identical implementation.

Well, you are right. Indeed, there was a pure virtual class (and the abstract
interfaces only in another reply) and I missed that point. So, we can see from
that example that C++ has the facilities that can be used as "interfaces" in
Java sense, but in C++ those facilities are rather advanced, while in Java the
interfaces are the primary entities, at the same level as the simple classes.
Also, in C++ those facilities are regarded as a kinds of classes, which seems
to be rather artifical and misleading.


Alexander Kopilovitch                      [log in to unmask]
Saint-Petersburg
Russia