Accessibility modifier for methods inside the interface

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Hi friends, I want to know that Why can't you specify the accessibility modifier for methods inside the interface?

Daril · Answer

That is the nature of the interface. A calss that implements an interface should have to implement all members of that interface. If a particaular member is in private, then the implementing class cannot implement that particular member. If you want to use an accessmodifiers then use an abstract class.

Vulpes · Answer

As Satyapriya said, interface members are implicitly public (it would make no sense for them to be anything else) and so using an access modifier would be pointless and it's a compiler error to do so. However, when a class implements an interface, it is necessary to designate the implemented members as 'public' unless you are implementing them explicitly when again no access modifiers are permitted. In the latter case, they are implicitly public but can only be accessed through an interface reference, not through a reference to the class itself.

Satyapriya Nayak · Answer

Hi Amit, Methods inside Interfaces are public by default.you can't declare any accessibility modifier for methods inside interface. Thanks

Accessibility modifier for methods inside the interface

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