I understand but you must realise that in terms of the actual grammar there
would be fewer changes from Java 7 to Java 8 with default as an attribute.
I hope IDEA supports this change soon (or already?) so I can continue
playing with the benefit of an IDE.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Simon Ochsenreither <
simon.ochsenreit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The rationale was to make default a modifier instead of even more special
>> syntax than it needs to be.
>
>
> The reasoning is interesting, even though I disagree that it would cause
> even more special syntax. The syntax exists since Java 5 already:
>
> String foo() default ""; // default value syntax for annotations
> String foo() default {...}; // (old) default method syntax
> String default foo() {...}; // (new) default method syntax (!?)
>
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