X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.16.109 Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.42!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!nospam.fr.eu.org!usenet-fr.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: A question about a few variables in a class Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:01:33 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <8ff5e4fa-84c5-4d4a-97e8-0b2f3f5b0dc4@m5g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <9b372a01-59c9-462a-a5ca-463f3ededb9d@y19g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:02:29 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="f8igmItKsWs6nM5YanFxAA"; logging-data="28098"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ULrmpOoIawm8iaoak6RNz" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <9b372a01-59c9-462a-a5ca-463f3ededb9d@y19g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:hrTjs/Pb5xRivmCWkz+lXh+jHnE= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7116 On 8/14/2011 4:23 PM, Chad wrote: > On Aug 13, 5:49 pm, Eric Sosman wrote: >> On 8/13/2011 1:30 PM, Chad wrote: >> >>> On Aug 6, 4:56 am, Eric Sosman wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> We don't actually know what Rectangle is because there are no >>>> import statements to tell us what package it's in.[...] >> >> Just out of curiosity, what *is* the `Rectangle' you used? > > Below is all 5 million lines of code from the book.... >[...] > //Rectangle1 isn't a typo > public class Rectangle1 extends GeometricObject1 { Not a typo, fine. Also still not `Rectangle' ... Chad, if you ever expect to make any progress in programming you will have to learn a few hard truths about exactness. First, of course, is that the computer will do exactly what you tell it to -- and the whole huge activity called "debugging" amounts to exploring the gap between what was said and what was meant. That being the case, it is counterproductive in the extreme to widen the gap gratuitously, as you have done in this thread by persisting in sloppiness. You are just making things harder, unnecessarily harder, and people may tire of working unnecessarily hard to help you. By the way, the status of the thread's question is just as it was nine days ago: "Insufficient information to support an answer." Not much progress for nine days, is it? -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid