From Java 9, interfaces can have private methods that can be called from 
interface default methods. This is to reduce duplicate code in default method 
implementations. 



> On Dec 3, 2017, at 20:44, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-12-03 00:24, Matt Sicker wrote:
>> It's too bad that Java 8 and 9 added language features
>> that would have been immensely useful for maintaining a backwards
>> compatible API (default and private methods on interfaces), 
> 
> Did Java 9 add anything more than Java 8 for this?

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