Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: CLI Java Glitch Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:01:20 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="uZlcKoxCDvYxlcrl0EM5vQ"; logging-data="5464"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+VJn4METCc/ewLFZi06yvh5ZUV5oEotcc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:8dm2Xgg/SkjcNzSyyt/+NalJTTk= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5536 On 06/22/2011 01:18 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:02:25 -0400, Jeff Higgins > wrote: > > [snip] > >> I read the OP as wanting to make a simple thing easier for_Gene >> Wirchenko_. Others seem to be addressing a request to "fix" the java >> executable. Maybe Lew is right; we must be precise, precise, precise! > > Of course I want to make it easier for myself! That is why most > of use who use computers use computers. That is why I proposed a personal solution. > Look at it this way. If Java were being spec'ed right now, The behavior under discussion has been specified and is implemented and can now only be re-specified and implemented. > would you have an objection to what I propose? Yes because it would break a lot of others stuff. Why not make it easier? Back to the personal solution.