Re: How to structure packages

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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> I suspect that the one-to-one correspondence between classes and .class
> files is mostly technical (e.g. Java's security model). The one-to-one
> correspondence between class files and source files could probably be
> relaxed, but at the expense of complicating the IDE and toolchain.

One class per object file isn't a problem - you can always .jar your
classes if the proliferation of small files bothers you, and then it's
just a different way of indexing the mound of code.

One class per source file complicates the human's view in order to
simplify the tools'. Not sure that's really worthwhile.

> I never saw it as a problem, given that Java is fundamentally class-based:
> there are no global variables or functions, only classes.

Yeah... of course you can easily simulate globals with static members
in a dedicated class, but it's slower. THIS, though, is where Java's
security model comes in - you can assign security X to Globals1.class
and security Y to Globals2.class, rather than trying to juggle
security issues in a monolithic "globals" namespace. IMHO it's not
worth the hassle, though. I'd rather just have globals.

ChrisA

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How to structure packages bclark76 <bclark76@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 08:56 -0700
  Re: How to structure packages John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-09-07 16:11 +0000
    Re: How to structure packages Rafael Durán Castañeda <rafadurancastaneda@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 19:18 +0200
  Re: How to structure packages Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-09-07 19:30 +0200
    Re: How to structure packages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-08 10:29 +1000
      Re: How to structure packages Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-08 12:39 +1000
      Re: How to structure packages Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2011-09-08 09:51 +0000
      Re: How to structure packages Jonathan Hartley <tartley@tartley.com> - 2011-09-08 03:22 -0700
      Re: How to structure packages Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-09 01:45 +0100
        Re: How to structure packages Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-09 11:37 +1000
          Re: How to structure packages Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-10 11:11 +0100
            Re: How to structure packages Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-10 20:29 +1000
            Re: How to structure packages "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> - 2011-09-10 08:04 -0600
        Re: How to structure packages Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2011-09-10 02:38 +1000
  Re: How to structure packages rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 10:56 -0700
  Re: How to structure packages "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> - 2011-09-07 12:11 -0600
  Re: How to structure packages Westley Martínez <anikom15@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 14:35 -0700

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