Re: "Hello world!" without a public class?

From:

Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sun, 6 Jan 2013 09:43:53 -0800 (PST)

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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

1.) =BBpublic class HelloWorldApp=AB (because this is most common II=

RC)

This the most common they are going to run into in real life and when you=

get in inheritance explain the difference between the 4 options. You sho=
uld also point out (I know I will get flamed for this ;-)) that the only ti=
me you do not want to use "public" is in inner classes (which in my opinion=
should be outlawed anyways)

Do you really mean just inner classes? Would you ban all nested classes
outright?

It would be a very, very boneheaded thing to outlaw inner classes.
You'd destroy a common idiom for declaring listeners. You'd make lambdas
impossible. You'd kill one of the most expressive features of Java, that
was introduced to the language in the first place because of its great
power.

You are aware that nested classes were added to Java, not there from the
beginning, yes? There were excellent reasons to do that.

Study the matter.

--
Lew