Peter Donald wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 19:13, Conor MacNeill wrote: > > but there was a discussion on this list a long > > time ago that it was good to use star imports. > > Could you give me a rough pointer to this ? Nothing popped up when I grepped > my archives. Generally I am of the opinion that explicit imports decreases > cost of entry because potential developers don't have to search through > multiple packages to find the classes. This makes it far easier for them to > adapt and add code in long run.
I'm with Peter on this one. I'm vastly more in favour of explicit imports than promiscous * imports, for exactly the reasons Peter describes. > I am kinda curious what type of arguement > could be made for globbed imports (other than laziness). Same here... Glenn McAllister SOMA Networks, Inc.
