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Default methods were introduced to enable interface evolution. If backwards compatibility is sacrosanct, this is limited to adding new methods to interfaces (which is their exclusive use in the JDK). But if clients are expected to update their code, default methods can be used to gradually evolve interfaces without causing compile errors, thus giving clients ...