I think I am going to cry

[minestrone]

Well clearly oracle are seeing that the plain old java interface is useless and are giving it a reason to exist now.

[SpontaneousOrder]

I just got unbanned...

Minstrone - you are off your rocker.

Re default implementations - that's a good thing. Of course they should never have created such an abomination as interfaces to begin with and just given us proper multiple inheritance. But apparently it was for our own good (and nothing at all to do with it being a PITA to implement in the JVM).

I believe that it was introduced so that they could bolt on the new Streams API to the existing collections.

[SpontaneousOrder]

I drew the line at anonymous functions

I assume that's a joke.

[doodab]

It's there so that they can add methods to existing interfaces without breaking exisiting implementations that don't implement the new methods.

It's an abomination.

[suityou01]

No. I think anonymous functions are a good idea in concept, but will be widely misused and will help coders produce even more unreadable bloated code. If you are writing a function and halfway through think you need an anonymous function ask yourself if your function is already doing to much.


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[SpontaneousOrder]

It's there so that they can add methods to existing interfaces without breaking exisiting implementations that don't implement the new methods.

Yeah. I think mainly Streams.

It's an abomination.

Well it's definitely a hack, but interfaces always were a hack to begin with. Now interfaces are just crippled abstract classes, so I can sympathise with your position.

[doodab]

No. I think anonymous functions are a good idea in concept, but will be widely misused and will help coders produce even more unreadable bloated code. If you are writing a function and halfway through think you need an anonymous function ask yourself if your function is already doing to much.


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Why do you keep going on about anonymous functions? What has that got to do with default implementations in interfaces?

[suityou01]

It doesn't. It has to do with features of modern languages that I don't like.


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[SpontaneousOrder]

No. I think anonymous functions are a good idea in concept, but will be widely misused and will help coders produce even more unreadable bloated code. If you are writing a function and halfway through think you need an anonymous function ask yourself if your function is already doing to much.


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I guess you don't approve of the new Lambdas then (unless that's what you meant - I was thinking you meant anonymous classes)

[suityou01]

Lambdas. Yes. Hate them.


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