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Re: How to structure packages

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On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:37:44 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

>> The Java compiler also acts as a "make" program. If it doesn't find
>> a .class file for a needed class, it will search for the corresponding
>> .java file and compile that. So to compile a complex program, you only
>> need to compile the top-level file (e.g. HelloWorld.java), and it will
>> compile everything which is required. No Makefile is needed, as the
>> relationship between classes, object files and source files is fixed.
>>
> 
> If that's the entire benefit, then I think this is a rather hefty
> price to pay for the elimination of a makefile.

It also eliminates the need for TAGS files, browser database (PDB) files,
etc. Once you know the class name, all of the filenames follow from that.

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.

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

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  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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