Re: "Hello world!" without a public class?
On 1/6/2013 12:51 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
On Sunday, January 6, 2013 12:43:53 PM UTC-5, Lew wrote:
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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 should also point out (I know I will get flamed
for this ;-)) that the only time 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.
And get rid of one the most unreadable/widely abused parts of all
Java code? Sounds good to me... almost everything done with
inner/nested classes can be done cleaner with post 1.5 constructs
that do not require impossible to read code.
What post 1.5 constructs can replace inner classes?
Arne
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