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Reading through the post, one of the link[1] says something along the line of "Java has 'multiple inheritance' from day 1". How is this the case?

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2013-March...

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He qualified it with "(of types)", so I believe he was talking about inheriting from multiple interfaces. People already had to be able to deal with "this thing is both a Foo and a Bar", so perhaps it's not a huge leap to go from there to "this thing inherits implementation from Foo and Bar". And by implementation we mean methods, not state.

That's how I read it at least.

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