In this case, nothing particularly meaningful or useful, they mostly just shrink wrap the underlying (single) implementation's details and re-expose them as-is for the caller to cope with. Some people also think that that somehow helps with encapsulation too.
> In this case, nothing particularly meaningful or useful
You're either playing dumb or weren't able to understand what was in the code. IHelloWorldString is an abstraction over the way the string was implemented, IPrintStrategy is a strategy pattern that abstracts away how the abstract hello world string is supposed to be printed, and finally IStatusCode is an abstraction over how a status code is implemented.
> they mostly just shrink wrap the underlying (single) implementation's details and re-expose them as-is for the caller to cope with.
No, not really. Their purpose is to abstract away implementations. Just because there's a single implementation that does not mean this wasn't abstracted away.
