It can easily break compatibility if someone introduces a new class with the same class name as another class in a different package.
ex:
import foo.*; /* has class A */
import bar.*; /* has class B */
class Foo {
A a;
B b;
}
Imagine time going by and another developer creates another class called A in the bar package. The code above will not recompile because of the abiguous class name.
-Tim
Costin Manolache wrote:
BTW - what's evil in import * ? I never understood.
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