NAMES FOR DANCERS AND OTHER GRACEFUL SOULS ... Posted 19 Jan 96 by Me'ira a.k.a JOYFUL DANCER. kharding@lamar.colostate.edu. Permission granted to publish/distribute. On Doomsday you will be called by your names and the names of your fathers - so choose beautiful [graceful] names! -- The Prophet Muhammed.
The Java programming language supports multiple inheritance of type, which is the ability of a class to implement more than one interface. An object can have multiple types: the type of its own class and the types of all the interfaces that the class implements.
Java by Definition Chapter 3: Object-Oriented Programming Page 28 of 82 Bert G. Wachsmuth DRAFT April 2009 The idea of multiple definitions of one method is supported using overloading, an object-oriented concept that applies to all methods, including constructors (but not destructors).