btw, I grant that naming a class "Utils" is probably asking for
trouble. But this was way back when, before we realised how many
classes there were going to be out there ;) That being said, how many
classes are there named "Document"?
--- Neil O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I couldn't agree more with Craig. I have come across the exact
> situation he describes, where there exists classes:
>
> com.foo.a.ClassA
> com.foo.a.Utils
> org.bar.ClassB
>
> and you have code:
>
> // MyClass.java
> package com.acme.c;
>
> import com.foo.a.*;
> import org.bar.b.*;
>
> [...]
> public void myMethod()
> {
> Utils = new Utils();
> // etc.
> }
>
>
> If a class org.bar.b.Utils is added to a latter release of org.bar's
> library, there is now an ambiguous reference to Utils. It appears
> that
> most of the other arguments for or against explicit importing are
> style- or ease-of-use related. That being the situation, the case
> illustrated above should clinch the argument. import *; can result in
> code that won't compile.
>
> - Neil
>
>
> --- "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, David Graham wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 13:15:03 -0700
> > > From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: RE: [collections] XxxUtils inner classes
> > >
> > > >Import .* is annoying and all the jakarta projects should have
> > import
> > > >cleanups as part of their build.xml IMHO.
> > >
> > > Out of curiosity, why is importing .* annoying?
> > >
> >
> > I think it's "dangerous" and "fragile" more than "annoying". It's
> > possible that a new class will get added to your package, or the
> one
> > you
> > are importing, which will result in broken compiles of previously
> > working
> > code. It also obfuscates where classes you use are actually
> defined,
> > which makes reading code harder than it should be.
> >
> > > David
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >Yoav Shapira
> > > >Millennium ChemInformatics
> > > >
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