> > My main complaint with explicit imports is that is > > cripples a *very* > > handy IDE feature (auto-complete). > > I don't have IDEA, so that may be the case with that > tool. Explicit imports do not cripple Eclipse > however. Autocomplete operates on any class in the > classpath, regardless of whether or not is has been > imported yet.
Ah! I just did some digging and it turns out IDEA does indeed allow that! If you type control-alt-space it will search the entire classpath. control-space searches just the current file's imports. (I'm glad IDEA separates this out; when using Eclipse I'm often overwhelmed by its auto-complete choices, not to mention by the time it takes it to build the list. I'm especially irritated that Eclipse is case-insensitive here -- when I'm typing a symbol name I usually know the difference between foo and Foo and if there's only one completion with the case I typed, I'd like Eclipse to just run with that one.) Like I said, this is a preference for me, not a religion, and I'm perfectly happy to abide by the guidelines. I read over the Turbine coding standards and they seem profoundly reasonable to me. - A -- 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]
