protected interface members

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From: "Steven Livingstone" <connect@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:58:26 -0000

I know this is not supported, but i'm just looking for some reasoning and
perhaps debate.
Is there are reason why this is not supported as in the words of manhy a
French poet "it's doing my head in".

I simply wish to break some concrete (and circular) dependencies into
interface dependences and decouple some of my classes. It is an internal
coupling (almost) as i don't want some of these methods exposed to the
outside world, only to derived classes.

However, it may span assemblies so internal interfaces don't work for me.
Public interfaces of course do the job, but i don't want to expose internals
to consumers of my services.

Basically, i want to create an interface for members that can be inherited
in derived classes. But i can't.

steven :: http://stevenR2.com

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