I think I am going to cry

[doodab]

Just reading about Java 8. They have added a new mechanism to interfaces so that you can supply a default implementation of a method.

It seems this is purely to allow them to provide some random default implementations for extensions to existing interfaces. Surely extending the interface via a sub interface or an abstract subclass would have been the right thing to do?

It just seems like a horrible bodge to me.

[kal]

Just reading about Java 8. They have added a new mechanism to interfaces so that you can supply a default implementation of a method.

It seems this is purely to allow them to provide some random default implementations for extensions to existing interfaces. Surely extending the interface via a sub interface or an abstract subclass would have been the right thing to do?

It just seems like a horrible bodge to me.

Its for backwards compatibility which the Java designers have been obsessed with since the languages inception (that why we have the mess that is Generics and the hassle that type erasure causes). Just for once I think they should have followed the .NET lead and drawn a line in sand with version 8!

[suityou01]

I drew the line at anonymous functions

[MicrosoftBob]

You don't have to use it just because it's there

[kal]

You don't have to use it just because it's there

There is still a lot to like in version 8, lambdas and the new Api's (date, streams), for me this makes Java 8 the new Scala

[MicrosoftBob]

Its for backwards compatibility which the Java designers have been obsessed with since the languages inception (that why we have the mess that is Generics and the hassle that type erasure causes). Just for once I think they should have followed the .NET lead and drawn a line in sand with version 8!

They failed with version 1.1 as that broke a lot of code out there!

[doodab]

You don't have to use it just because it's there

No, but like really strong aftershave, I will have to put up with other people using it.

[doodab]

Maybe they are trying to persuade more people to move to scala or something.

[suityou01]

There is still a lot to like in version 8, lambdas and the new Api's (date, streams), for me this makes Java 8 the new Scala

Oh poor Doodab

[kal]

Maybe they are trying to persuade more people to move to scala or something.

Never really got on with Scala, seems to want to be all things to all men, they've made the language so flexible that it doesn't really have an identity. I imagine the '50 ways to do the same thing' will result in a world of maintenance pain on large projects.