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Expand Up @@ -554,7 +554,10 @@ Apart from inheriting code from a super-class, a Scala class can also
import code from one or several *traits*.

Maybe the easiest way for a Java programmer to understand what traits
are is to view them as interfaces which can also contain code. In
are is to view them as interfaces which can also contain code (This
feature is available in Java since version 8 using the `default` keyword
as well as static methods. Default methods can be overriden in implementing
classes. Since Java 9 private methods can also be used in interfaces.). In
Scala, when a class inherits from a trait, it implements that trait's
interface, and inherits all the code contained in the trait.

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