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Advanced Questions

Do default methods introduce multiple inheritance to Java?

No, because multiple inheritance is already present in Java. Multiple inheritance of interface types has been a feature of the language since its beginning. Default methods do introduce a new kind of multiple inheritance, namely multiple inheritance of behaviour. Java will still not have multiple inheritance of state, as for example C++ has.

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