Declaring abstract interfaces for classes
Author(s): Angel Fernandez Pineda.O'CIAO abstract interfaces are simple modules which declares exported predicates with no implementation. The implementation itself will be provided by some class using an implements/1 declaration.
O'CIAO classes may be also treated as interfaces just ignoring all exported predicate implementation.
In order to get information about error reporting, consult the class_doc chapter on this documentation.
Usage and interface
- Library usage:
To declare an interface, the interface source expansion package must be loaded::- interface(ItfName).
or using a module/3 declaration, as follows::- module(ItfName,[],[interface]).
Note: interfaces does not declare any code, so there is no need to load them from the CIAO toplevel shell. - Imports:
- Packages:
prelude, nonpure, assertions.
- Packages:
