Re:Java in the Small
by Joker_vD on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @09:04PM
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I know, right?
> So you don't need to worry about functions floating around in a global namespace soup.
Because having classes floating around in a global namespace soup is fundamentally different and should give no worries to anyone. Yet this was argument made in earnest back when arguments about Java's strengths and weaknesses were much more popular.
Re:Java in the Small
by lmz on Saturday December 21, 2024 @08:29AM
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With the 1:1 intended correspondence of (public?) class names to source file names I get how that could be considered a feature for ease of use, compared to C++ where any file could define any name.
> So you don't need to worry about functions floating around in a global namespace soup.
Because having classes floating around in a global namespace soup is fundamentally different and should give no worries to anyone. Yet this was argument made in earnest back when arguments about Java's strengths and weaknesses were much more popular.