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Subject: Re: "Hello world!" without a public class?
From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com>
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On Sunday, January 6, 2013 3:59:30 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:
> On 1/6/2013 12:51 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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> > On Sunday, January 6, 2013 12:43:53 PM UTC-5, Lew wrote:
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> >> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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> >>> This the most common they are going to run into in real life and
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> >>> when you get in inheritance explain the difference between the 4
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> >>> options.   You should also point out (I know I will get flamed
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> >>> for this ;-)) that the only time you do not want to use "public"
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> >>> is in inner classes (which in my opinion should be outlawed
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> >>> anyways)
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> >>
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> >> Do you really mean just inner classes? Would you ban all nested
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> >> classes
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> >> outright?
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> >>
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> >> It would be a very, very boneheaded thing to outlaw inner classes.
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> >>
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> >> You'd destroy a common idiom for declaring listeners. You'd make
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> >> lambdas
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> >>
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> >> impossible. You'd kill one of the most expressive features of Java,
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> >> that
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> >>
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> >> was introduced to the language in the first place because of its
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> >> great
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> >> power.
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> >
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> > And get rid of one the most unreadable/widely abused parts of all
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> > Java code?   Sounds good to me... almost everything done with
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> > inner/nested classes can be done cleaner with post 1.5 constructs
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> > that do not require impossible to read code.
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> What post 1.5 constructs can replace inner classes?
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> Arne

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