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[JakubSchwenkbeck]

Motivation

As we have implemented most of the basics in our Java subset, I would suggest we collect additions which we might add to our Compiler:)

Possible Additions (ticks speak for the Parser!)

• Real support of for loops
• Interfaces
• abstract classes
• Type casting

[Brofian]

Interfaces would be a necessary addition to the compiler, as many of the predefined classes use them a lot. This would require a new field interfaces: List[String]in the ClassDecl and either a new node InterfaceDecl or an additional parameter isInterface on the ClassDecl (for comparison: Java Reflections use the isInterface parameter). Method bodies are already optional, so the abstraction could be ensured in the semantic check.

One example could be: class java.lang.String extends Object implements [...], CharSequence, which implements the method public boolean contains(CharSequence)