On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > The Java compiler also acts as a "make" program. If it doesn't find > a .class file for a needed class, it will search for the corresponding > .java file and compile that. So to compile a complex program, you only > need to compile the top-level file (e.g. HelloWorld.java), and it will > compile everything which is required. No Makefile is needed, as the > relationship between classes, object files and source files is fixed. >
If that's the entire benefit, then I think this is a rather hefty price to pay for the elimination of a makefile. Oh wow, I can type "javac MyClass.java" and it picks up all the others! If you're dividing a project into multiple files already, is it that hard to have one more that defines the relationships between the others? Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
