Convert most interfaces in dart:core to abstract classes.

lib/core/date.dart

Index: lib/core/date.dart
diff --git a/lib/core/date.dart b/lib/core/date.dart
index e36a8ba57a21edeb0ebfad583dff903c8b4a0bd7..be5ae439541ead3a284616abfc08418bf998b0ad 100644
--- a/lib/core/date.dart
+++ b/lib/core/date.dart
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  *
  * Also see [Stopwatch] for means to measure time-spans.
  */
-interface Date extends Comparable, Hashable default DateImplementation {
+abstract class Date implements Comparable, Hashable {
   // Weekday constants that are returned by [weekday] method:
   static const int MON = 1;
   static const int TUE = 2;
@@ -45,27 +45,30 @@ interface Date extends Comparable, Hashable default DateImplementation {
    * [month] and [day] are one-based. For example
    * [:new Date(1938, 1, 10)] represents the 10th of January 1938.
    */
-  // TODO(floitsch): the spec allows default values in interfaces, but our
-  // tools don't yet. Eventually we want to have default values here.
-  Date(int year,
-       [int month,
-        int day,
-        int hour,
-        int minute,
-        int second,
-        int millisecond,
-        bool isUtc]);
+  factory Date(int year,
+               [int month = 1,
+                int day = 1,
+                int hour = 0,
+                int minute = 0,
+                int second = 0,
+                int millisecond = 0,
+                bool isUtc = false]) {
+    return new DateImplementation(year, month, day,
+                                  hour, minute, second,
+                                  millisecond, isUtc);
+  }
 
   /**
    * Constructs a new [Date] instance with current date time value in the
    * local time zone.
    */
-  Date.now();
+  factory Date.now() => new DateImplementation.now();
 
   /**
    * Constructs a new [Date] instance based on [formattedString].
    */
-  Date.fromString(String formattedString);
+  factory Date.fromString(String formattedString)
+      => new DateImplementation.fromString(formattedString);
 
   /**
    * Constructs a new [Date] instance with the given [millisecondsSinceEpoch].
@@ -77,7 +80,12 @@ interface Date extends Comparable, Hashable default DateImplementation {
    */
   // TODO(floitsch): the spec allows default values in interfaces, but our
   // tools don't yet. Eventually we want to have default values here.
-  Date.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(int millisecondsSinceEpoch, [bool isUtc]);
+  // TODO(lrn): Have two constructors instead of taking an optional bool.

[ahe, 2012/09/18 12:30:56]

Alternatively, make it a name parameter.

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen, 2012/09/18 12:39:42]

It's going to have to be consistent with the Date constructor, and that can't
have both positional and named optional parameters. I expect it will change into
an UTC version and a non-UTC version, both with optional positional parameters.

+  factory Date.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(int millisecondsSinceEpoch,
+                                          [bool isUtc = false]) {
+    return new DateImplementation.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(
+        millisecondsSinceEpoch, isUtc);
+  }
 
   /**
    * Returns true if [this] occurs at the same time as [other]. The