Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!exi-transit.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!exi-spool.telstra.net!exi-reader.telstra.net!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 18:31:29 +1000 From: Esmond Pitt Reply-To: not.esmond.pitt@not.bigpond.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Death To Sub-Sub-Sub-Directories! References: <4dc23d41$0$99951$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4dc3b1e4$0$99950$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 120.151.14.51 X-Trace: 1304670692 exi-reader.telstra.net 99950 120.151.14.51:43218 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3650 On 5/05/2011 4:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> If you do as you suggest you lose automatic recompilation of dependent >> classes. > > No I don’t. That's strange, I do: A.java: package p; public class A { } B.java: package p; public class B extends A { } javac B.java: B.java:10: cannot find symbol symbol: class A public class B extends A ^ 1 error