Why can't I have protected interface members?

Question

What is the argument against declaring protected-access members on interfaces? This, for example, is invalid:

public interface IOrange
{
    public OrangePee         


        

Answer 1

There's sound judgment in current design of interfaces which is that it offers implementers greater flexibility. Remember that very often interfaces are written by framework programmers and implementers are different folks. To enforce implementation would be needlessly harsh.