Patrick (Gus) Heck wrote:
...is like having methodless classes with only
a static part...
In fact a colleague of mine just ran into exactly this type of java file
(written by someone else) in some code he is working with. Scary but
there are people out there who do scary things!
What's scary about them? In some circumstances Java
classes with only final static variables are a perfect
place for keeping magic constants, or hash tables (this
is where static initializers come into play).
I've seen this regularly in context of generated code.
In the same sense I could imagine build files wich
only define properties, to be imported. But then,
it's a matter of taste whether you like them or not.
J.Pietschmann
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