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

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On Sunday, January 6, 2013 12:43:53 PM UTC-5, Lew wrote:
> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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> >>     1.) »public class HelloWorldApp« (because this is most common IIRC)
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> > This the most common they are going to run into in real life and when you get in inheritance explain the difference between the 4 options.   You should also point out (I know I will get flamed for this ;-)) that the only time you do not want to use "public" is in inner classes (which in my opinion should be outlawed anyways)
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> Do you really mean just inner classes? Would you ban all nested classes 
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> outright?
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> It would be a very, very boneheaded thing to outlaw inner classes. 
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> You'd destroy a common idiom for declaring listeners. You'd make lambdas 
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> impossible. You'd kill one of the most expressive features of Java, that 
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> was introduced to the language in the first place because of its great 
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> power.

And get rid of one the most unreadable/widely abused parts of all Java code?   Sounds good to me... almost everything done with inner/nested classes can be done cleaner with post 1.5 constructs that do not require impossible to read code.

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Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 02:10 -0800
  Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 09:43 -0800
    Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 09:51 -0800
      Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 09:58 -0800
        Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 10:48 -0800
          Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 16:07 -0500
            Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 13:21 -0800
              Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 16:43 -0500
          Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 17:24 -0800
      Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 15:59 -0500
        Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? "Aryeh M. Friedman" <Aryeh.Friedman@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 13:22 -0800
          Re: "Hello world!" without a public class? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-06 16:35 -0500

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