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Comment by lmm | Hacker News Reader

If only. Where are my extension methods?

default methods in interfaces will more or less mimic the same behavior.(sorta like mixins its not exactly the same but yeah lol)

    class SomeClass implements Linq {}

    public interface Linq { 
        public IEnumerable where(Func) { default implementation... }

        public IEnumerable orderBy(Func) { default implementation... }
    }

That's a good thing, but it doesn't let me add my own methods to existing classes - I can subclass and mixin an interface, but instances I get back from library methods won't have that extra interface.

You can do that with Groovy.

Or with scala, and I do, but we're talking about Java 8 here.

C# really needs something similar to this. How many times have I implemented INotifyProgertyChanged and INotifyPropertyChanging. They're the exact same implementation every time. Now I've gone on to a base notify propery changed class that I can inherit from, but the mix-in approach, or the default implementation could be perfect.

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