Immutability Of Interfaces

Erich Gamma: Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them. As a consequence when adding a new method to an interface you have to do so in a separate interface.

I hope the W3C people are listening. I have shouted about their adding methods to published interfaces 256 days ago, but you guys shouted me down.

Anybody want to argue the same point with Erich Gamma?

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on June 7, 2005 7:43:46 AM CDT #