First question. What package holds this class?
Second question. I've encountered a lot of examples ofClassName.MethodName(), but this commond seems to have one too many periods. I mean, isn'tout a method of System? And if so, what status doesprintln()? Hmm, I'm very confused.
Third question. Can I not...import somepackage.*;
...so I can then just writeprintln(), or at leastout.println()?
> Third question. Can I not... import
> somepackage.*;
...so I can then just write
> println(), or at least out.println()?
in Java 5.0, you can say in your imports:
import static java.lang.System.out;
And then you'll be able to say:
out.println();
but it's not a good idea.
sorry for being dumb... System is a static class and as of 1.5 you can do a static import to use it as you were requesting
import static java.lang.System;
. . .
out.println("this works");
> First question. What package holds this class?
java.lang
You can check this with the javadocs http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/
> Second question. I've encountered a lot of examples
> of ClassName.MethodName(), but this commond
> seems to have one too many periods. I mean, isn't
> out a method of System? And if so, what
> status does println()? Hmm, I'm very
> confused.
Like the other poster said, out is a PrintStream.
> Third question. Can I not... import
> somepackage.*;
...so I can then just write
> println(), or at least out.println()?
No. Importing only lets you skip the package name. So with an import, you can go from saying
java.util.ArrayList =....
to
ArrayList = ...
But everything in java.lang is already imported, and System is a class, not a package.
> sorry for being dumb... System is a static class and
> as of 1.5 you can do a static import to use it as you
> were requesting
>
> import static java.lang.System;
good lord.
who wanted this put into java, and where can i find them so i can shoot them?
This is like that episode of The Simpsons where there are bird eating lizards infesting the city so they bring in lizard eating gorrillas or something and then they get infested with gorrillas.
Sun must have been like.... "well people are writing bad code to get around typing static class names so lets implement a way for them to do this without writing bad code"... what happens now there is more bad code in a new form.
