AbstractList etc. functionality as interfaces with default methods?

[Pavel Rappo]

> (I’ll hand-wave the issue of “protected int modCount” issue for now.)

Not only. Consider this: java.util.AbstractList overrides some methods from
java.lang.Object such as equals and hashCode. And this is a no-no [1]:

    ...It is a compile-time error if a default method is override-equivalent
    with a non-private method of the class Object, because any class
    implementing the interface will inherit its own implementation of the
    method...

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[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-9.html#jls-9.4.1.2