Re: Bizarre import weirdness

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From: Jon Skeet
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 22:56

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Ron Albright <moron(at)pobox.com> <Ron Albright <moron(at)pobox.com>> 
wrote:

> >Because otherwise the compiler has no idea what you mean by 
> >"PersistentRdbmsObject". There could be any number of classes with that 
> >name in various packages.
> 
> So you're implying the 'import <package>.*' statement does
> nothing? 

I'm saying that you there is no difference in the compiled class file 
between:

import java.util.*;
public class Test
{
    Vector v = new Vector();
}

and

public class Test
{
    java.util.Vector v = new java.util.Vector();
}

> If you have the following 2 imports the compiler
> gives an ambiguous reference error if a 'Date' object is
> declared without specifying the package.
> 
> import java.sql.*;
> import java.util.*;

I don't see the relevance of this. You just need to tell the compiler 
which to use in preference, eg:

import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.Date;

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