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Re: "Hello world!" without a public class?

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On Sunday, January 6, 2013 8:09:45 AM UTC-5, Chris Uppal wrote:
> Stefan Ram wrote:
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> >  There is no �public� in front of �class� in Oracles Tutorial!
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> >  What should I teach in my classes?
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> I don't have a strong opinion on how the class should be declared, but I do 
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> think -- and very strongly -- that the Java entry-point convention is a massive 
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> kludge, 

It makes sense for historical reasons (it was designed to model the Unix/C convention [likely a hold over before the JVM itself was created]).

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> FWIW: the examples in the JLS3 all use an default access class to house the 
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> (specified to be required) public static void main(String args...) or public 
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> static void main(String[] args) entry-point.  The spec does not appear to care 
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> what access the class itself has (and there's no obvious reason -- technical or 
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> semantic -- why it should).  Does "private" work ?  If so then using that would 
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> be defensible.

And no *SANE* person would use the JLS to teach the language from!  That being said private is allowed for inner classes but no where else I think

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Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-01-06 13:09 +0000
  Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 05:19 -0800
    Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 05:28 -0800
      Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? lipska the kat <lipskathekat@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-01-06 13:36 +0000
      Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-01-06 13:44 +0000
        Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 10:49 -0500
          Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 11:45 -0500
          Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-01-06 19:44 +0000
            Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 16:09 -0500
              Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-01-06 21:46 +0000
  Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-01-06 14:02 +0000
  Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2013-01-06 14:12 +0000
  Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 10:42 -0500

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