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Inner classes: The poor mans obfuscator.

Richard Wilkman wrote in message <371605CD.6CD470FB@inprise.com>...
>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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