> On Jul 2, 2023, at 21:43, Levi Morrison <morrison.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 7:08 PM Ben Ramsey <b...@benramsey.com> wrote: >> >> I’m probably going to vote “yes” on this, but since the property accessors >> RFC won’t be ready for 8.3,[1] and that RFC covers use of properties in >> interfaces, how useful will interface default methods be without interface >> properties? > > Plenty useful, I think. Interfaces deal with abstractions, so there > are often things you can do without having state. Java's interfaces > don't allow properties, for instance, and they still have this > feature. > > As an example, this poor-man Sequence interface works, because the > behavior and state for `next` is provided by the implementer: >
Thanks for the response. This makes perfect sense to me now. Cheers, Ben
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