27 Jul
2009
27 Jul
'09
2:09 p.m.
about qualified imports and TDNR: for x.f to work (as in the proposal), the name f must be in scope (that is, be imported unqualified)? That would be bad (unqualified imports should be discouraged). In Java, the methods of a type are automatically in scope, e.g., the ".bitCount()" works without any "import": System.out.println ( java.math.BigInteger.TEN.bitCount() ); see JLS 15.12.1 item 1.3 ("in all other cases...") J.W.