Re: Enhancement request

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
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Date:
Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:34:49 +0100
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Tegiri Nenashi wrote:

On Sep 3, 9:38?pm, Lionel van den Berg <lion...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sep 4, 2:31?pm, Tegiri Nenashi <TegiriNena...@gmail.com> wrote:

Now that I don't use these arguments, I never feel to make a
concentrated effort to remember them. Why bother remembering something
that I can easily copy over from somewhere else. However, after doingg
this same trick for 100 time, I ask why Java can't just be simplified
to allow

? static void main() {
? }

as a program entry point?


Considering you ownly write one main method for an application it is
hardly a common inconvenience, I therefore see no real reason to
support your suggestion.


I suggest the main method is used a lot more often than one per
application. I test every sophisticated method by invoking from the
main, e.g.

Class Topology {
  ...
  public static void main( String[] args ) {
     Cylinder c = new Cylinder("a",10,10,10,10);
     Topology t = new Topology(c);
     System.out.println(t.getOpenings());
  }
}

Therefore, almost every class has it. With this usage scenario it is
unjustifiably verbose.


http://junit.sourceforge.net/

tom

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