<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Andrew,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does something like Java 8’s default methods (methods added to a type rather than an implementation — and not allowed to refer to instance variables) satisfy your needs for extensible primitive types?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#4787ff" class=""><u class=""><a href="http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/java-8-explained-default-methods/" class="">http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/java-8-explained-default-methods/</a></u></font></div><div class=""><font color="#4787ff" class=""><u class=""><br class=""></u></font></div><div class=""><div class="">
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