Virtual Extension Methods in upcoming Java 8 release

Question

When I see code snippets like

  interface A {
      void a();
      void b() default { System.out.println(\"b\"); };
      void c() final { System.out.printl         


        

Answer 1

We need this because it will make the Scala guys absolutely furious. They already have rather similar functionality in the shape of 'traits', so now they'll have to make those work together with these.

Pissing off Scala guys is literally the highest priority in Java language development.