+1
--jason
On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 11:47 PM, James Strachan wrote:
+1 for expand imports. It makes reading the code easier. Code is there to be read by humans - so anything which helps comprehension (while not going stale like too much documentation can do) is a very good thing.
I often tend to do an 'organise imports' in eclipse when code starts having unused imports in it etc.
On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 05:44 pm, Alex Blewitt wrote:
Has anyone got any preferences between using:
import java.util.*
or
import java.util.Vector import java.util.Enumeration
etc.
(Yes, I know I should be using List instead of Vector :-)
Despite some articles trying to claim otherwise, there's really very little difference between the two as far as the code is concerned. In fact, you could argue that the import package.Type is actually slower than the import package.* variant as there's more text to be parsed.
The only real difference IMNSO is that if you have
import java.util.*
then this says 'This type is dependent on types in the java.util package"
whereas
import java.util.Vector import java.util.Enumeration
says "I specifically depend on Vector and Enumeration in the java.util package"
People who use powerful IDEs (i.e.,they write the import statements for you) generally prefer the more verbose and detailed import types; those using text editors will no doubt prefer to use the package wildcards.
Any votes on which one is better/worse/standard?
Alex.
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