Re: inheritance bug?

> If I understand correctly, the situation is:
>   class A {}
>   void methodX(A) { ... }

> and you now want:
>   interface I {}
>   class A implement I {}
>   void methodX(I);
>   methodX(A a) { ... }

> The point is that here you have the knowledge of the package that 
> defines methodX (otherwise you would not even know it exists). So you
> have the opportunity to do the above refactoring.

That wasn't what I was trying to say.
I don't have the source for class A - I do know the method signature
from the docs, and I want to use class A alongside some new class B by
defining an interface which both A and B will implement.

So refactoring is not an option.


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