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Re: multiple inheritance in Java

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On 7/2/2013 1:17 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> On 07/02/2013 12:09 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>>      Okay.  It might have been clearer if you'd chosen names that
>> weren't already taken -- although, one must admit, that's not easy
>> to do with Java's ever-growing namespace bloat.  (Factoid: The HTML
>> *index* for the 7.0 API occupies eighteen meg!)
>>
>
> Java never throws anything away. I wonder about a compatibility layer.
> rt.jar would contain all of the current stuff, rtc.jar the old.

     Not sure what the separation would accomplish.  All the
package names would remain unchanged, all the class and method
and field names would remain unchanged, the JavaDoc would still
have to describe them all, and the JVM would need to open one
more file than it already does.

> On the plus side, I can now do this:
> public class Scratch {
>    public static void main(String[] args) {
>      int mySSNumber = 000_00_0000;
>      System.out.println(mySSNumber); // :-( }}
>
> Progress.

     A number like 089_89_8989 would be even more progressive.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid

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Re: multiple inheritance in Java Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-07-01 21:52 -0400
  Re: multiple inheritance in Java Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-07-02 00:09 -0400
    Re: multiple inheritance in Java Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-07-02 08:13 -0400
      Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-04 17:33 -0400
        Re: multiple inheritance in Java Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-07-05 08:04 +0200
    Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-02 13:17 -0400
      Re: multiple inheritance in Java Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-07-02 13:40 -0400
        Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-02 14:29 -0400
          Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-02 15:12 -0400
            Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-04 17:23 -0400
              Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-04 17:25 -0400
          Re: multiple inheritance in Java Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-07-02 15:44 -0400
            Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-02 16:28 -0400
              Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-02 16:44 -0400
              Re: multiple inheritance in Java Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-07-02 17:13 -0400
                Re: multiple inheritance in Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-02 22:12 -0400
  Re: multiple inheritance in Java Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 11:53 -0700
    Re: multiple inheritance in Java Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2013-07-03 10:46 +0100
      Re: multiple inheritance in Java lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-07-03 13:01 +0100
        Re: multiple inheritance in Java Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2013-07-03 14:12 +0100
          Re: multiple inheritance in Java lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> - 2013-07-03 14:49 +0100
        Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-06 22:19 -0400
  Re: multiple inheritance in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-07-04 17:36 -0400
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