Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: borrowing Constants Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:39:38 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 22 Message-ID: <02dq77p0i00lsfdsl78bfnencd2ab4a5gs@4ax.com> References: <4e7d27e8$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <86afq.26627$CY4.6386@newsfe04.iad> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8250 On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:10:28 -0300, Arved Sandstrom wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Which logical place is not in the code at all. Granted, I don't know >that Roedy's example is doing anything more than using "VERSION" as a >generic variable name (I hope). I chose it as an easy-to-understand example. In my example, VERSION is something you might display in a an About box. The question is really about accidentally dragging in some giant class when you had no intention of using its code. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com It should not be considered an error when the user starts something already started or stops something already stopped. This applies to browsers, services, editors... It is inexcusable to punish the user by requiring some elaborate sequence to atone, e.g. open the task editor, find and kill some processes.