🚀 go-pugleaf

Not digging for it, I can understand.  But not allowing me to specify it is
another thing. Anyway, thanks for the response.  (And no, it's not just ego
code ;-)

Richard Wilkman wrote:

> JD:
>
> JB has to find a runnable node in a piece of source code.  We look for
> main() or init() as a top level node and use the first one we find as
> the "runnable node".
>
> You really wouldn't want us to have to parse, entirely, all files in a
> project just to find a hidden main()!  Well, the other 99% of the
> world wouldn't like the wait <g>.
>
> That particuler tip from Bruce still doesn't strike me as beneficial
> (and he didn't originate it, either) beyond being a piece of "ego
> code"  ("Hey, look what *I* can do!"), but if it has some real world
> gain for you, great!
>
> -Rich
>
> JD wrote:
> >
> > I'm having trouble debugging a main() inside an inner class.  Here's the
> > code:
> >
> > public class TestInner{
> >     public TestInner() { }
> >
> >     static public class Inner{
> >         public static void main(String args[]){
> >             System.out.println("some output");
> >         }
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > It compiles fine, and runs from the command line (java TestInner$Inner)
> > but I can't run/debug it from JBuilder.  I get a message: "Cannot
> > determine runnable file".  I can't set TestInner$Inner to be the default
> > runnable, even if I edit the jpr file by hand.  This works in J++.  Any
> > ideas?
> >
> > P.S. If you're wondering why the hell I'd do this, check out Bruce
> > Eckel's excellent book _Thinking_in_Java_.
>
> --
>
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>
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>
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