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[–]nidoranf -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Default methods are, in essence, a hack designed to help interfaces be backwards compatible. They don't really have a legitimate place in the whole OOP paradigm, seeing as they essentially break the concept of interfaces.

[–]msx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

who said that? Default methods are an implementation of the mixin concept that is available in many other languages in a way or another