Explicit public on static interface methods?

[Andrey Breslav]

> John Rose made this observation/suggestion:
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> Implicit public considered risky:  After working for a while on a new interface, I realized that all the methods I coded without an explicit "public" keyword were still public.  I was using them as package privates shared between the interface and some package-private implementation logic.  Oops.  Did not discover this until I was preparing a javadoc for public review.  That feels a little too late. Our processes would block me from accidentally introducing a public static, but that might not be true of customers.
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> Suggest requiring a "public" on "static" interface members.  Will reduce confusion if we allow non-public statics in the future.
> 

Observation 1: We will never be able to have package-private members in interfaces, unless we require explicit public now.
Observation 2: Having static methods and fields inconsistently handled for interfaces looks ugly. Fields are public by default, so making methods package-private by default would look odd. (By observation 1, we can't have package-private fields in interfaces).