At 12:19 AM 12/2/2002 +0100, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> > I still support explicit imports. They make it easy to understand class
> > dependencies just by looking at the code. In Cayenne I was trying to be
>
>Holy War ahead ;-)
>Interesting point though, I always tried to find out why some people do
>this (explicit imports) and this is the first time I hear about the
>(definitely valid!) dependency tracking idea..guess I need to think more
>about that.
Seeing all the imports does actually help me a lot going through all the
Jakarta and other 3rd party code.
> > more or less consistent with that.
>
>I can just revert the imports again if you prefer to; no problem. I got
>plenty of time at the moment..and after all there's this saying by A.
>Einstein: "Be consistent or be inconsistent, but don't be both!" ;-)
This is a good one :-). Anyway, my vote is to revert to explicit imports.
Esp. since it is no longer painful with Ctrl-Shft-O.
Andrus
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