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It can't

Posted by Michael Walters on September 18, 2000 at 12:22 PM

> Could someone please explain to me why the code
> Runnable run = new Runnable() works? I used to believe that interfaces where implicitly abstract and therefore could not be instantiated; only implemented. Is Object somehow involved in this???

> Thanks,
> Shaul

It can't work. You are most likely seeing a bug. In jdk1.3, it
doesn't work:
Class1.java:7: java.lang.Runnable is abstract; cannot be instantiated
Runnable runnable = new Runnable();
^
1 error