Defender methods and compatibility

[Llewellyn Falco]

sorry, i know this must sound like a newbie question, but I am confused as
to the whole point of the default and defender methods for interfaces.

I've been following the thread for a while now, but still can't seem to get
my head around it.

As far as I can tell, this allows you to have Interfaces that act like
abstract objects.
Which is confusing, why not just have abstract objects?

the 1 possible difference I can see is this would allow for multiple
inheritance.
and that leads to a very odd question of

"why would you want to bring back multiple inheritance?"


is there something I am missing here?

llewellyn