InputStream close()?

[Ben Hinkle]

"Bradley Smith" <digitalmars-com at baysmith.com> wrote in message 
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> Ben Hinkle wrote:
>> "Bradley Smith" <digitalmars-com at baysmith.com> wrote in message 
>> news:e6stsf$31he$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>> Is there some reason why the InputStream interface does not have a 
>>> close() method?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>   Bradley
>>
>> I vaguely recalling poking around with adding one but it would conflict 
>> with OutputStream's close(). Creating a Closeable interface - this is 
>> where I can't remember the details - ended up requiring all Stream 
>> classes to be declared as Closeable. Or something like that. It's worth 
>> giving it another shot for sure.
>>
>>
>
> You can't have two interfaces with the same method? I haven't tried it 
> yet, but since both InputStream and OutputStream are both interfaces, I 
> assumed that it would not cause a conflict.
>
> How does one design complex systems if interfaces conflict so easily?
>
> Thanks,
>   Bradley

I just tried implementing two interfaces with the same member and it seems 
to work. I don't remember enough about what I tried to provide any help.