Re: Enhancement request

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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Date:

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:37:41 -0400

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Tom Anderson wrote:

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Mike Schilling wrote:

Lew wrote:

Tegiri Nenashi wrote:

static void main() {
}

Mark Space wrote:

Forgot the "public."

Unless you call it from another Java class in a different package,
'main()' doesn't need to be public.

It's not callable from the command line unless it's public.

class Hello
{
   static void main(String[] args)
   {
       System.out.println("Hello.world.");
   }
}

% java -cp . Hello
Main method not public.

I could have sworn that private main methods worked. Was that changed
at some point, or was i wrong all along?

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/execution.html#12.1.4

says:

"The method main must be declared public, static, and void. It must
accept a single argument that is an array of strings."

so it is rather specific.

Okay. I should probably take my brain in for a service, then.

The class does not have to be public.

And in C# Main does not have to be public.

So it is more or less a random decision that main in Java need
to be public.

Arne