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Tor:

I think "Bob" is the same idiot who left in "null" layout, too.  Not
to be confused with "Fred", the academic who stuck inner classes into
Smalltalk before moving to Javasoft and foisting that mess off on a
relativly clean language.

-Rich

Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote:
> 
> Richard Wilkman <rwilkman@inprise.com> writes:
> 
> > Ah well.  It is such a bad thing that it has been incorporated into
> > Java 2 and will probably be back ported to JDK 1.1x in the future.
> 
> Yes. One might wonder what they were thinking:
> 
> "For 1.1, let us make this nice Bean model, with property editors
> giving a Java initialization string they can put into setFoo() methods
> in generated source-code. For that reason, let us make all-property-
> setting constructors for all helper classes in the AWT, _except_ for
> GridBagConstraints - for reasons only known to Bob."
> 
> "Yeah, let's."
> 
> :-)

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