Class, Interface, Abstract, Static, Partial, Sealed

[pairofstrings]

Hi.
What do I call Instance Classes, Interface, Abstract Classes, Partial Classes, Static Class, Sealed Class collectively?
Thanks.

 

[jedishrfu]

I'd just say classes and interfaces with classes covering the ones you mentioned.

 

[newjerseyrunner]

It's grammar, maybe an API? I would just call them structures as all of them eventually boil down to a chunk of memory holding the members and a function table.

 

[jedishrfu]

Except the interface doesn't boil down to some memory.

Interfaces are used as a datatype contract to say that the class that implements the interface supports the following methods.

A good example in Java, is the Runnable interface which if implemented by some class means that it will have a run() method for multi-threaded operations.