Default visibility interface inheritance problem

Question

I have these constructs:
package bar;
public interface A {
void Foo()
package bar;
public class B extends C implements A {
void Foo() {
This produces following compile error:
Cannot reduce the visibility of the inherited method from A. The error does not occur if I make B::Foo() public.
Why does the error occur?
Thanks in advance,
-Lev

Answer 1

the default visability for interfaces are public for methods and public static final for variables. The
default modifier for classes are packager-scope and variables are non-static, non-final by default.
For this reason and others I prefer to state explicitly what modifiers I expect the methods and variables to have.... and believe me, you're not the only one ;-)
lazyness is often leading to omitting modifiers, wiseness always recommends to be as explicit as possible.