What should default interfaces be for?

[Chance]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Patrick Wright <pdoubleya at gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding default methods, the only concern I have is whether the
> proposed approach will also prove useful for non-Java languages on the
> JVM, such as Scala - in this interview with Martin Odersky he suggests
> it doesn't cover all the cases he would like for Scala
> (http://www.infoq.com/articles/odersky-scala-interview).

It's too bad Odersky doesn't say HOW the defender method spec falls
short of supporting Scala traits. It could be that Scala traits allow
specifying their base class at instantiation time.

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