All Java interfaces should receive an Any parent

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...and a necessary step to be taken in combination with this is that 'eq' be defined on Any. All the details of why this should be done, including an almost unprecedented level of agreement, can be found in this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scala-internals/jsVlJI4H5OQ/BwdZT5hpKtsJ

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Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-7765?orig=1
Reporter: @paulp

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@soc said:
Agree, but we need to keep in mind that interfaces can have implementations since Java 8.

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@paulp said:
Fortunately that's irrelevant, since they still cannot have state.