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Foil 67 Interfaces can be used as Classes in type specification

From Java Tutorial - Spring 1997 Part II: Java Language and Object-Oriented Concepts Peking Tutorial, Web Certificate -- Spring-Summer 1997. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox
Interfaces behave exactly as classes when used as a type.
The normal type declaration syntax "interfaceName variableName" declares a variable or parameter to be an instance of some class that implements interfaceName.
  • public class StudentBody {
    • Stream s;
    • Picture id_photo; // of interface storable
    • StudentRecord id_card; // of interface storable
    • . . .
    • public void register() {
    • save(id_photo);
    • save(id_card);
    • }
    • public void save(Storable o) {
    • o.store(s);
    • }
  • }

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