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Authored by: bugstomper on Saturday, May 05 2012 @ 03:47 PM EDT |
The questions could be reaching to find something that really does have
structure, e.g., the inheritance relationships between classes. But there is
only a tiny bit of that left after you remove the package hierarchy from
consideration. The questions really do sound to me like going for the point that
the structure that is there is based primarily on the naming convention of the
package system, which is just an arbitrary naming like labels on filing
cabinets, drawers, and folders. And that the structure imposed by the
inheritance of classes is a functional aspect of the underlying Java language.
To the degree that the answers to the questions are more likely to poke holes in
Oracle's conflations than help them, I would like to be optimistic about Judge
Alsup's motives. That, and my optimism or pessimism will have zero effect on the
outcome, so I might as well stay cheerful :)
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