I agree there are two camps. A decent way to compromise is to use explicit imports unless there are n or more imports from a particular package.
I think more important than which style is used, is that the same style is used consistently across a project. Doesn't Apache have any standard defined for this? | -----Original Message----- | From: Alex Chaffee / Purple Technology [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:06 PM | To: Shapira, Yoav | Cc: Jakarta Commons Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [collections] XxxUtils inner classes | | | On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:10:51PM -0500, Shapira, Yoav wrote: | > | > Howdy, | > | > >import org.apache.commons.collections.* good. | > | > Import org.apache.commons.collections.[onlyTheClassYouNeed] | is good. | > | > Import .* is annoying and all the jakarta projects should | have import | > cleanups as part of their build.xml IMHO. | | Oh, God, not this debate again. | | Look, there are two camps here, and I'm in the * camp and you're in | the explicit-import camp. There's no need to structure things so that | one camp is going to be angry, even if you don't agree with their | reasons for being angry. Organizing classes by maximal cohesion | should satisfy everyone. | | (If you like, I'd be happy to debate with you *off-list* and show you | the error of your anal ways :-)) | | -- | Alex Chaffee mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Purple Technology - Code and Consulting http://www.purpletech.com/ | jGuru - Java News and FAQs http://www.jguru.com/alex/ | Gamelan - the Original Java site http://www.gamelan.com/ | Stinky - Art and Angst http://www.stinky.com/ | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
