Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: missing import java.lang.Comparable Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:44:37 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <86lh1o4eku.fsf@kwarg.de> <11952827-9dd1-48e7-b835-722a38023ce5@googlegroups.com> <00835840-56aa-4ba2-b496-e364a62a38e8@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:44:37 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e5160e2be48f1ea550cf61512446f525"; logging-data="11064"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19BBKwn2ZakvyGoKzT5dUG7Ky0hk80x50o=" User-Agent: Pan/0.140 (Chocolate Salty Balls; GIT 3663720 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:35ty80EP4HIh3pWzIXtqS2UkuyY= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:34739 On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:24:49 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote: > Java's packages serve (among other things) as namespaces. There's > no reason not to use them as such. > Agreed, and using domain names as the first two terms of the package name is a pretty good way of keeping the namespaces from different developer groups distinct. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |