Why can't static methods be abstract in Java?

Question

The question is in Java why can\'t I define an abstract static method? for example

abstract class foo {
    abstract void bar( ); // <-- this is ok
    ab         


        

Answer 1

You can do this with interfaces in Java 8.

This is the official documentation about it:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/defaultmethods.html