There is a second task that [lang] had which has been lost over time by various changes that people have made. That is that [lang] should be a repository of code that people can cut and paste to their own code.
This may scare some, but it is actually quite sensible. Not eveyone wants to pull in the entire [lang] library when they only want a couple of functions. (I fully understand there are many ramifications of cut and paste, but it was IMHO part of the intent of [lang]).
I've done the cut-and-paste quite a few times actually. Using Maven makes including new libraries easy, but when I'm on a project that is strictly Ant I'll cut and paste maybe 5 or so methods before including the jar.
I also believe [lang] is simple enough that, even if there are quite a few intra-class dependencies, it wouldn't make the cutting and pasting that much harder. When I've had to include extra classes I just make them package private.
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