[GROOVY-1467] Default method parameters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-6
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.2
• Component/s: command line processing
• Environment: Win XP, JDK1.5.0_06, JSR-06
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Kenneth Bell
• Created: 18/Aug/06 02:43
• Updated: 23/Dec/07 12:25
• Resolved: 23/Dec/07 06:04

Description

A method declarator in an interface may include one or more default parameters.
These defaults should apply to only the parameters at the end of the parameter list.
JSR-06 permits them to appear anywhere.

Question: Do defaults in interfaces make sense? Could a class implementing the interface
offer a different default value? This leads to ambiguity.