<br><br>Basically I'm searching for a way of specifying a policy that a class must have a method with partial signature <i>getValue () </i> and yet not tie down the return type. i.e. every class must ...

This is something I have wondered for a while, and having dug up some old code, the thought has been re-ignited in my brain.<BR><BR>If private inheritance describes an 'implemented in terms of' ...