Re: Float.MIN_VALUE
Patricia Shanahan writes:
If that is really, really necessary, you will have to use
"java.lang.Float" any time that is what you mean in that package.
Stefan Ram wrote:
Another possibility is
import java.lang.Float;
once at the top of the source file.
Technically incorrect, but even if it worked it would be too ghastly. It's
much better not to hide java.lang classes, and so much easier. The import
does not solve the cognitive disconnect for the code maintainers - only
correct naming practices will do that.
The unqualified class name will cause a compile-time error due to the conflict
between the names, unless it's in the declaration of the local Vector class
itself.
The link I posted earlier this thread mentions:
The scope of a top level type is all type declarations in the package in which
the top level type is declared.
....
A compile-time error occurs if the name of a top level type is also declared
as a type by a single-type-import declaration (?7.5.1) in the compilation unit
(?7.3) containing the type declaration.
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/packages.html#7.6>
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